Christmas Quotes

"I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce." — Mallory Jansen”

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"One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun." — Sabrina Bryan”

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"We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride." — Sonya Walger”

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"We usually have a beautiful, sparkling Christmas tree and my dad reads us 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' in front of the fire and it's all very cozy. Then we pack up and head to meet my extended family, where we live out our yearly tradition of everyone gifting everyone underwear in their stockings." — Annie Murphy”

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"My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!" — Debby Ryan”

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"In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out." — Alain Ducasse”

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"Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns." — David Hepworth”

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"Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee." — Michael Dirda”

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"The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve." — Blake Shelton”

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"Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read." — Wayne Swan”

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"I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house." — Sebastian Arcelus”

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"Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey." — Amanda Lindhout”

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"I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine." — Amy Smart”

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"My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside." — David Hasselhoff”

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"For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up." — Michael Dirda”

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"It's all about a beautiful table on Christmas day. I put out lovely napkins and napkin holders, and maybe put a wreath in the centre. I like to dish all the veg up into massive serving platters, for everyone to help themselves - it feels so abundant." — Monica Galetti”

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"The French take their festive platters seriously and spend lavishly on them. Christmas Eve, rather than Christmas Day, is when they tuck into the big family meal known as Le Gros Souper or Le Reveillon. Traditionally, it was served after the return from midnight Mass." — Carol Drinkwater”

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"We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning; we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!" — Darcey Bussell”

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"But I was obsessed with 'Lord of the Rings' when I was little. It still is a Christmas tradition in my family. We all sit around and watch the three films together. That was it for me." — Madeleine Madden”

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"'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone." — Tess Gerritsen”

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"Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear." — Jhumpa Lahiri”

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"Christmas is always a great time because I get to be around family and spend time with my brother, nieces, and nephews, so that's what I plan to do. It's great to disconnect from everything." — Karen Civil”

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"I have already done two Christmas films: 'Elf' and 'Four Christmases.' I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it's the one time of year we can all get together. It's hands-down my favorite holiday." — Peter Billingsley”

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"I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting." — Mary Berry”

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"I love our perfectly imperfect Dent Christmas. We've honed how this day works for decades, so why spoil a winning formula?" — Grace Dent”

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