“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
Christmas carries a weight of meaning that goes beyond decorations and gift wrap. These quotes touch on generosity, family, faith, nostalgia, and the particular magic of a season that asks us to slow down and pay attention to what matters.
“You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.”
“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
“There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.”
“There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”
“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.”
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”
“Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.”
“Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.”
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
“That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.”
“My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.”