“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.”
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.
“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.”
“I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.”
“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.”
“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”
“Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'”
“You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.”
“The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.”
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!”
“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.”
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.”
“There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.”