50 Christmas Quotes
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I first learned about Christmas when my family and I immigrated to this country in 1971, mostly from my first grade class in my public school.
It was a strange and wonderful tradition that I slowly learned more and more about over the years, from each subsequent teacher, friends, TV, and books. I fell in love with all the Christmas carols and holiday specials and movies on TV. I even love all the amazing decorations!
I still feel that way! Which is why I’m happy to share these Christmas quotes to spread the fun and cheer!
FIFTY CHRISTMAS QUOTES
1. Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart … filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
2. Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
- Oren Arnold
3. I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays—let them overtake me unexpectedly—waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why this is Christmas Day!”
- Ray Stannard Baker
4. There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck
5. Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for—I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.
- Kate L. Bosher
6. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
- Peg Bracken
7. Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself …
- Norman Wesley Brooks
8. Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given—when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
- Joan Winmill Brown
9. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
- Taylor Caldwell
10. Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
- Charlotte Carpenter
11. Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
12. Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.
- Margaret Cousins
13. Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it “white.”
- Bing Crosby
14. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens
15. I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
- Charles Dickens
16. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
- Charles Dickens
17. Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.
- Hugh Downs
18. They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
- Mrs. Paul M. Ell
19. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
- W. T. Ellis
20. Christmas, my child, is love in action.
- Dale Evans
21. Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
- Francis C. Farley
22. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis
23. 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?
- Bob Hope
24. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things—not the great occasions—give off the greatest glow of happiness.
- Bob Hope
25. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving
26. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
- Garrison Keillor
27. Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
- Carrie Latet
28. Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
- Robert Lynd
29. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
30. If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas?
- Don Meredith
31. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller
32. Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
- Joan Mills
33. Christmas is, of course, the time to be home—in heart as well as body.
- Garry Moore
34. Christmas is a time when you get homesick—even when you’re home.
- Carol Nelson
35. What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
- Agnes M. Pahro
36. Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
37. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
- Andy Rooney
38. Christmas—that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
- Augusta E. Rundell
39. Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
- Charles Schulz
40. As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
- Eric Sevareid
41. “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more.”
- Dr. Seuss
42. Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
- Ralph Sockman
43. He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
- Roy L. Smith
44. Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
- Margaret Thatcher
45. For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
- W. J. Ronald Tucker
46. At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
- Thomas Tusser
47. Christmas can be the end of pessimism and cynicism; the beginning of belief and trust.
- William Arthur Ward
48. Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
- Lenora Mattingly Weber
49. Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
- Deborah Whipp
50. Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
- Larry Wilde
CONCLUSION
I hope you and your loved ones have a warm and wonderfully merry Christmas! : )
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