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At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
Sep 15, 2025
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
One can never have enough socks
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
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.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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.
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.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
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.
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.
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
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.