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When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.
Sep 17, 2025
My father knows more about sports than any human being out there. He relaxes. The ribbing that we give each at the Christmas holidays is incredible. He's much more of an ordinary American and a proper American than a lot people would probably ever believe.
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.