Quotes about Christmas

„The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among people,
To make music in the heart.“

—  Howard Thurman American writer 1899 - 1981

"The Work of Christmas" in The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations (1985)
Context: When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among people,
To make music in the heart.

„That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Jace and Isabelle, pg. 155
Variant: "That does it, I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?"
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.“

—  Helen Steiner Rice American poet 1900 - 1981

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

—  Norman Vincent Peale American writer 1898 - 1993

„Driving in my car
I'm driving home for Christmas
With a thousand memories
I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same“

—  Chris Rea English singer-songwriter 1951

"Driving Home for Christmas"
Song lyrics, New Light Through Old Windows (1988)

„Till I had you I didn't know that I was missing out. Had to grow up and see the world through different shades of doubt. Give me one more chance to dream again. One more chance to feel again through your young heart. If only for one day let me try. I wanna see Christmas through your eyes. I want everything to be the way it used to be. Back to being a child again, thinking the world was mine... I see the rain, you see the rainbow hiding in the clouds. Never afraid to let your love show. Won't you show me how. Wanna learn how to believe again. Find the innocence in me again, through your young heart. Help me find a way, help me try. I wanna see Christmas through your eyes. I want everything to be the way it used to be. Back to being a child again, thinking the world was kind. I wanna see Christmas, Christmas through your eyes.“

—  Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

Christmas Through Your Eyes
2007, 2008

„He made a lot of friends everywhere and was always in contact with them too. Weeks before Christmas he would have piles of cards and he always wrote to anyone that he knew, keeping them informed. Even his enemies I think.“

—  Bon Scott Rock musician 1946 - 1980

Angus Young, from Sounds, March 1980.
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„What kind of food did we drop on Afghanistan? Pop-Tarts, peanut butter…just add a Honey Baked Ham and you've got a redneck Christmas. Why are we dropping this food on Afghanistan? Tastes a shit load better than dirt, #1. #2, difficult to have a call to jihad with a mouth full of peanut butter. Thirdly, Afghanistan is a hashish-smoking culture, and anyone who's ever been a friend of the hookah will go, (intense, stoned stare) "Pop-Tarts!"“

—  Robin Williams American actor and stand-up comedian 1951 - 2014

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

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

—  Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and coul… 1927 - 1996

„Grey dawn was seeping into the sick room [around Christmas 1867, Munch was almost dying then and spitting blood when he was 13; but he recovered]. I lay in the middle of the bed with my hands outside the bedclothes, looking straight ahead. Now I was in a pact with God. I had promised to serve him if I survived, if he allowed me to escape the tuberculosis. Now I could never be as before.“

—  Edvard Munch Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863 - 1944

T 2771, as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 26
after 1930

„But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.“

—  P. C. Cast, book Chosen

Source: Chosen

„What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?“

—  Salman Rushdie, Fury

Source: Fury

„Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.“

—  Augusten Burroughs, book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

„One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.“

—  Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011

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

—  Craig Ferguson Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist 1962

„We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

„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.“

—  Graham Greene English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904 - 1991

Source: Travels With My Aunt

„I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.“

—  Rick Riordan, book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

„When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.“

—  Jean Fritz American children's writer 1915 - 2017