Quotes About Christmas Presents

#1. I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Paul Ryan

#2. One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

June Diane Raphael

#3. Callum's basement had always been off-limits to me, and I wasn't dumb enough to believe the restriction was in place because that was where he hid my Christmas presents.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#4. The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.

Bart Yates

#5. No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents ... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

John Malkovich

#7. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.

Michael Pollan

#8. I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Trey Songz

#9. All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

David Jeremiah

#10. My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

Gemma Arterton

#11. I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

Claire Danes

#12. On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

George Clooney

#13. My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

Mario Batali

#14. One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

Brendan Morrison

#16. If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

Kanye West

#17. People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

Bryce Courtenay

#18. Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

A.E. Van Vogt

#19. Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Marcelene Cox

#20. Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Alan K. Simpson

#21. I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Demetri Martin

#22. It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.

Michael Shannon

#23. Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

J.D. Robb

#24. Hey. Nobody has any trouble believing in the internet, right, which really is magic. So what's the problem believing in a virtual private network for Santa's business? It results in real toys, real presents, delivered by Christmas morning, what's the difference?

Thomas Pynchon

#25. Libby was a Christmas baby, which meant she never got the right amount of presents. Patty would hold one extra gift aside - and Happy Birthday to Libby! - but they all knew the truth, Libby got ripped off. Libby rarely felt less than ripped off.

Gillian Flynn

#26. It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

Ronald Hutton

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

Chris Brown

#28. It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

Julieanne O'Connor

#29. Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents.

Stephen Richards

#30. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

Sylvia Plath

#31. Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!

Rick Riordan

#32. Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.

Dale Evans

#33. It'd be fun, you know. Just once. To wake up Christmas morning with snow on the ground and stockings full of presents that no one had to steal and a house that's really home." She reclaimed the teapot and slowly slipped back into the con. "That would be nice. Maybe, someday, we'll steal that." On

Ally Carter

#34. The magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence.

Unknown

#35. I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

Joy Bryant

#36. 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.

James E. Faust

#37. I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

Jacob Latimore

#38. This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

JohnA Passaro

#39. But there was something so empty about the prospect of a Christmas Day without opening presents

Rachel Cohn

#40. In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

T.D. Jakes

#41. Mom says you have to believe in Santa if you want presents on Christmas.

C.K. Walker

#42. Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

Martina Mcbride

#43. The worst part of Christmas is that it ends. That practically the day after, everyone carries on as if nothing else ever happens. You're expected to go back to your normal life, eat normal food, not receive presents or celebrate or be jolly and wear stupid clothing, just because the moment's passed.

Matthew Crow

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

Henny Youngman

#45. Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

Louisa May Alcott

#46. I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

Neal Shusterman

#47. As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#48. A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#49. It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

Markus Zusak

#50. Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

Christian Louboutin

#51. Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

Ellen Hopkins

#52. Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

Sara Gilbert

#53. You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

#54. Waking up to you is like ... presents on Christmas morning."
His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.

Sylvia Day

#55. Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Kobe Bryant

#56. Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

Toni Sorenson

#57. No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other ... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Dolly Parton

#58. I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Tommy Hilfiger

#59. On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do ... I just love the way it makes the house smell!

Laura Leighton

#60. What about the presents?"
"Yeah, I don't think that's what Christmas is about," he commented.
Andrea huffed. "That is what Christmas is about. Anyone who says differently is trying to make themselves look all spiritual and shit. I keep it real.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#61. I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

Ashley Tisdale

#62. During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth.

Debasish Mridha

#63. Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

Rodney Dangerfield

#64. Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.

Philip Yancey

#65. Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

Taryn Manning