"One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk." — Tess Gerritsen”
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500 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHRISTMAS
Discover 500 Christmas quotes from famous authors, leaders and stars, with inspiring, funny, family and faith sayings to share in cards and holiday posts.
"One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk." — Tess Gerritsen”
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"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas." — Kary Mullis”
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other." — Keith Thibodeaux”
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"For Christmas our grandmother would give us this huge box every year of just art supplies, construction paper, water colors, charcoals, crayons, color pencils." — Brook Lopez”
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"My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!" — Lucy Hale”
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"I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift." — Sharon Lawrence”
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"My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard." — Danny Amendola”
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"I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies." — Lucas Grabeel”
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"My grandfather built a basketball court for me when I was 3 years old as a Christmas present, and I would go back there every day all day and just play basketball." — Baron Davis”
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"Every Christmas Eve, we used to listen to evensong live from King's College chapel in Cambridge, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that it was my geeky fantasy to be chosen to perform the opening solo verse of 'Once In Royal David's City.'" — Rebecca Front”
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"You'd go back to school and your friends would say, 'What you get for Christmas?' You got to make up a lie. 'I got this, this and this.' It's all part of growing up and everyone has a different story. It made me who I am today." — DeMarcus Cousins”
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"I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!" — Nancy Kerrigan”
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"We've all sort of been there: It's coming on Christmas, all that preparation is going on, and you just want to escape. You don't want to buy into it. It's a time of year that brings up a lot of memories for people, and if you're missing somebody, it's hardest at this time of year." — Michael Ball”
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"One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn." — Jorja Smith”
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"My disappointment with Christmas stems from my abject horror at losing the magic of Christmas when I was young. That's where it comes from. Because I'll never capture that Christmas joy and excitement again." — Paul Whitehouse”
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"Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth." — May-Britt Moser”
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"I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it." — Gilbert O'Sullivan”
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"For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts." — Mel Giedroyc”
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"I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all." — Faith Hill”
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"As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues." — Paul Dini”
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"It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'" — Tori Spelling”
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"Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to." — Christina Perri”
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"Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!" — Joseph Gatt”
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"I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth." — Roger Craig Smith”
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"I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow." — Ice Cube”
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