Quotes About Family Christmases

#1. All's fair in love and family Christmases.

Lenora Worth

#2. Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair.

Ellen Marie Wiseman

#3. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

Laura Hall

#5. I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.

Kiki Dee

#6. In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

Jay Leno

#7. My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

Julie Roberts

#8. When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.

Mark Twain

#9. I want a little girl with your smile and your smarts. I want Christmases and birthdays and a chocolate Lab who wears an American flag bandana that you name after a political philosopher or something. We can even include him in the family campaign photos.

Chanel Cleeton

#10. Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.

Jesmyn Ward

#11. All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

Richard Kadrey

#12. If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Tullian Tchividjian

#13. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

#14. It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

#15. True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

#16. Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Murray Bookchin

#17. Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

Emmy Rossum

#18. My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.

Emilia Fox