“The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.”
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 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 cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.”
“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.”
“When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.”
“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”
“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.”
“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.”
“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.”
“It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.”
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”
“My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.”
“So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.”
“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.”
“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.”