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- Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
- Orson Welles on Christmas
- Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
- Janet Napolitano on Christmas
- Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
- Stephen Leacock on Christmas
- On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
- Nigella Lawson on Christmas
- Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
- Dave Barry on Christmas
- One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
- Julie Burchill on Christmas
- One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
- Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.
- Lewis Black on Christmas
- Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
- April Winchell on Christmas
- Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
- Marcelene Cox on Christmas
- Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- Tony Visconti on Christmas
- Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
- James Cronin on Christmas
- People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
- Amy Sherman-Palladino on Christmas
- Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
- Frances Wright on Christmas
- Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
- Phyllis McGinley on Christmas
- Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge on Christmas
- Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
- Chris Van Allsburg on Christmas
- So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
- Bonnie Tyler on Christmas
- So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.
- Trey Parker on Christmas
- So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
- Peter Jurasik on Christmas
- South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
- Joel Hodgson on Christmas
- T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
- Clement Clarke Moore on Christmas
- Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
- George Osborne on Christmas
- That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.
- Jerry Seinfeld on Christmas
- The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
- Olivia Williams on Christmas
- The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
- Johnny Vegas on Christmas
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Christmas
- The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
- John Clayton on Christmas
- The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
- Phillips Brooks on Christmas
- The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
- James Irwin on Christmas
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner on Christmas
- The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- George Carlin on Christmas
- The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
- Beth Henley on Christmas
- The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
- A. J. Liebling on Christmas
- The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
- Lionel Blue on Christmas
- The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
- Paul Engle on Christmas
- The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
- David Friedrich Strauss on Christmas
- The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
- The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
- Richard Roeper on Christmas
- The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
- Bob Schieffer on Christmas
- The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
- Alice Cooper on Christmas
- The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
- David Eddings on Christmas
- The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
- Whitley Strieber on Christmas
- The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
- Rick Springfield on Christmas
- The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'
- Jensen Ackles on Christmas
- Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
- Gary Owens on Christmas
- There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
- Ernest Istook on Christmas
- There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
- Robert Staughton Lynd on Christmas
- There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
- Isaac Hanson on Christmas
- There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
- Helen Hayes on Christmas
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