Top 1200 Christmas Gift Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There's nothing like Christmas in New York.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.

I've been wanting to do a Christmas song for forever.

I used to do Christmas tours every year.

When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.

I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.

Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

"What is honor?" "Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man's gift to himself." "Do women have it?" "Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in 'em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so." "How do you know you have it?" "Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya' and speaks to ya'. All ya' need do is listen".

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.

I think Christmas is a time for the whole family.

I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers.

London is a great place to be over Christmas.

I don't normally do shows around Christmas time.

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.

I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

Christmas Eve is my wedding anniversary so it is a double whammy.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

I've never missed a single Christmas with my parents.

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Christmas food is a big part of our life.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

Halloween is my favorite holiday. It's like my Christmas.

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

The miracle of Christmas is not on 34th street; it's in Bethlehem.

The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.

It's, like, a rule. You can't have Christmas without snow.

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

My favourite part of Christmas is being together as a family.

I love everything about the Christmas season.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.