Quotes 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?'

Author: Jensen Ackles

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Author: Clint Black

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Author: Richard Brautigan

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

Author: Garth Brooks

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

Author: Chris Brown

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Author: Frank Butler

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Author: Frank Clark

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Author: John Clayton

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Author: Clarence Clemons

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

Author: Adele Comandini

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Author: Doug Coupland

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Author: Phyllis Diller

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Author: Jerry Falwell

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Author: Edna Ferber

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Author: Chris Frantz

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Author: David Friedman

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Author: Tom Hanks

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Author: Isaac Hanson

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.

Author: Beth Henley

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Author: Joel Hodgson

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Author: Kin Hubbard

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.

Author: James Irwin

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

Author: Mahalia Jackson

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Author: Garrison Keillor

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

Author: Margot Kidder

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Author: Nigella Lawson

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.

Author: Stephen Leacock

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Author: Leonard Maltin

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Author: Bernard Manning

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

Author: Frank McCourt

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Author: Phyllis McGinley

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

Author: Ethel Merman

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Author: Clement Moore

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Author: Enid Nemy

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.

Author: Trey Parker

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Author: Norman Peale

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

Author: Kevin Richardson

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Author: Kyra Sedgwick

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

Author: Monica Seles

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

Author: Monica Seles

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Author: David Selznick

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Author: William Sherman

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Author: Alfred Smith

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Author: Robert Teeter

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Author: John Tesh

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

Author: John Tesh

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

Author: Robin Trower

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Author: Tanya Tucker

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Author: Thomas Tusser

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

Author: Burt Ward

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Author: Muddy Waters

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Author: Muddy Waters

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Author: Andrew Webber

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.

Author: Orson Welles

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Author: E. White

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Author: Katherine Whitehorn

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

Author: Frances Wright