Top 1200 Short Christmas Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

How does Rudolph know when Christmas is coming? He looks at his calen-deer!

The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.

I work out for a few hours extra, but I can't give cakes and chocolates a miss on Christmas.

Honestly, the most excited I've ever been for Christmas is when I get a big fluffy blanket.

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

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

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

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

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.

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

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

We always throw a Christmas Eve party, and then we do a whole matching pajama thing.

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

I love singing our Christmas songs every chance we get. It's really cute.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

The Salvation Army do a lot more than sit around the Christmas tree with a band.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

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

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short run, is to go to nuclear power. It's amazing to me that people who are so alarmed about global warming are so reluctant to adopt the obvious short-term solution - the bridge until the day when we have affordable renewable energy - of nuclear power.

November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

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

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

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

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.

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

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

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

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

My girlfriend is Jewish. But it's easier to buy her a Christmas present and then break it into 8 pieces.

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

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

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

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.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

I do visit the church every Christmas, spend time with family and close friends at dinner.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

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

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.