Top 1200 Great Christmas Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.

I do like Christmas but the build-up is ludicrous. Such a kerfuffle about two meals and a few presents.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.

You might be a redneck if you stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by.

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

Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.

The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'

It's important for everyone's mental health they go home at Christmas. I don't want to tell any player they can't.

This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

'Mull of Kintyre' was the biggest single of all time up until 'Don't They Know It's Christmas' by that big charity.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.