Famous Quotes & Sayings

The fact that the tsunami struck a tourist region, and happened right after Christmas, played a role in terms of the generosity. We haven't witnessed that yet with the earthquake. Not at all. We need all the help we can get.

Ryan Watson

Winning the Christmas tournament was great. That really seemed to spark us.

Jessie Mueller

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

Elliott Abrams

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

Logan Mankins

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

David Ervine

We desperately need a deal before Christmas, and we have to hope that President Clinton's coming heralds the end game -- because the alternative is just too terrible to contemplate.

Kourtney Kardashian

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

Kourtney Kardashian

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.

Janet Napolitano

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).

Gareth Thomas

There is no doubt people have started to think seriously now about Christmas spending.

Gigi Hadid

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

Terry Zwigoff

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life,' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

Tove Jansson

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

Victoria Gotti

We're just thankful having him here and to be spending Christmas together as a family. It's been seven years since John has been here.

Booth Tarkington

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

Bonnie Tyler

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

David Dunn

If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!

Edwin Louis Cole

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

Edgar Guest

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Benjamin Franklin

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Axel Munthe

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

Banksy

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

Diane Abbott

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Daniel Handler

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Craig Ferguson

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Craig Ferguson

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

Craig Ferguson

Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

Craig Ferguson

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

Craig Ferguson

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