Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Falwell

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

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.

Franklin P. Adams

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Jim Carrey

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

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!

Hillary Scott

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Herbert Hoover

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Evelyn Underhill

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Evan Davis

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

Eugene Field

I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.

Ethel Merman

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Graham Greene

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Gisele Bundchen

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

Halle Berry

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

Ian St. John

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

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.

Gasoline pump prices fell by a third from early September to early December, and the Consumer Confidence Index was nearly back to the pre-hurricane level by Thanksgiving. Early reports suggest that Christmas shoppers will spend 6 percent to 7 percent more than last year.

George Bernard Shaw

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Gene Autry

Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

George J. Mitchell

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Christina Rossetti

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Christina Rossetti

Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low

Christina Rossetti

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.