Top 1200 Christmas Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away.

My mom's really into Christmas ornaments and our tree's lavish and beautiful.

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone's. Except in the shops at Christmas.

I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving back and serving the community. So when I became fortunate enough and blessed to play the game of basketball, I was also fortunate enough to follow in my parents' footsteps and give back like the way they did.

Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

When there's no more room under the Christmas tree, Ken Foree will have a birthday.

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.

I hope maybe I'll be in a Christmas movie that becomes part of someone's holiday tradition.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two times a year that usually my whole family gets together.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

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The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up - that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn't otherwise create. It's about giving them tools; it is about empowering people.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best.

That is what Christmas should be about, I think - togetherness and playfulness. It's like a game.

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. [...] You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. [...] The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

I was in Atlanta for nine years and we never got to play on Christmas Day.

I've always thought of characters like advent calendars. You have Christmas and you have all the little doors over the windows and every day you're allowed to open one more as it gets towards Christmas and you see more and more about what's inside that house.I remember as a kid being fascinated by that and I've always thought of my character as a little bit like that. I like to have secrets and slowly let those secrets out to the audience, sometimes never let them out, but let them see as you open the shutters, open and see a little bit more of a character.