“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”
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.
“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”
“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”
“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
“I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.”
“When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.”
“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.”
“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”
“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
“Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”
“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.”
“The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.”
“My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!”