Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Erma Bombeck

I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

Erma Bombeck

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

Erma Bombeck

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

Henry M. Morris

Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Henny Youngman

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

Helen Keller

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Helen Keller

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Helen Keller

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Gina Gershon

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

James E. Faust

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

Isaac Hanson

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

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

George William Curtis

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

George Whitefield

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

George S. Kaufman

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!

Jim Gaffigan

Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

Jean Kerr

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Christopher Hitchens

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Christopher Hitchens

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Gary Barlow

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Gary Allan

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

George C. Marshall

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Christina Perri

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

Christina Applegate

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.

Christina Applegate

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Frances Wright

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Francesca Lia Block

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

Frances Farmer

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

George Weah

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

George Osborne

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

Franklin P. Adams

Christmas is over and Business is Business.