Christmas Quotes - Page 25

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

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.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

For Christmas the just came out with a battery-operated battery. But the batteries aren't included.

I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.