Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

We think it would be really good for husbands at Christmas, when their wives are power-shopping.

The kids wanted to prove that they deserve the respect of the district. Christmas only comes once a year and lightning only hits a place once. These guys were out to show to themselves that they can do good things in district.

Joe Nichols

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

John Milton

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

Joel Hodgson

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Frank Darabont

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

Queen Elizabeth

The day after my last Christmas message was broadcast, the world experienced one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

A Merry Christmas this December - To a lot of folks I don't remember

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Henry Vaughan

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Henry Vaughan

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

Jose Mourinho

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

Lloyd Kaufman

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Lucas Grabeel

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

M. F. K. Fisher

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

Mahalia Jackson

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Freya Stark

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

Freya Stark

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Frank McCourt

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

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

Orson Welles

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.

O. Henry

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

Norman Vincent Peale

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Ellen DeGeneres

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!