Top 1200 Meaning Of Christmas Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No matter what type of Christmas you have, if you woke up and you seen a bike there, you remember it.

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

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

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

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

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

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

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

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

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

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

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

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

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

Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

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.

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

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

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

I`m asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.

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

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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

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

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

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

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

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

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

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

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

I have so many great memories of Christmas because we're always spending it with the family.

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

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

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

The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

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

[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

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

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