Christmas Quotes

• Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

  

  Lucinda Franks
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Night

• I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Mistake

• In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Family
  • Home
  • Holiday

• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Present

• For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship.

  

  Anne Nicol Gaylor
  • Sun
  • Worship
  • Pretense

• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

  

  David O. Selznick
  • Christmas

• I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Crazy
  • Christmas

• One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Weird
  • Cold
  • Snow

• The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.

  

  P. W. Singer
  • War
  • Stop
  • Single

• My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Father
  • Play

• Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Dog

• I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Family
  • Night

• ’Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed,

  

  Charles Stross
  • Night
  • Christmas

• I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.

  

  V. Bozeman
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Time
  • Family
  • Together

• The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Up
  • Night
  • Christmas

• The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Energy

• I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

  

  George Kotsiopoulos
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Christmas

• Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

  

  Mary Ellen Chase
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Christmas

• Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mushrooms
  • Cookery
  • Library Cart

• There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Christmas
  • Life is
  • Shotgun

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