Christmas Quotes - page 3

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind. (Lin Yutang)
Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals. View quote
Linus Torvalds
A good conscience is a continued Christmas. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
George J. Mitchell
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. View quote
Helen Keller
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. View quote
Jim Carrey
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true-although it sounds good!-but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me. View quote
Bobby Hull
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. View quote
B. C. Forbes
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature. (William Dean Howells)
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. View quote
Charles Dickens
If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world. View quote
Heidi Klum
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next. View quote
Benjamin Hoff
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. View quote
James Joyce
Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all. View quote
Barack Obama
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. View quote
Walter Scott
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. ‘Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; ‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. View quote
Walter Scott
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection. View quote
Winston Churchill
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home. (Odilo Globocnik)
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. View quote
Bob Hope
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that. View quote
Bob Hope
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. View quote
Mario Puzo
The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson