Top 100 Quotes On Christmas Day
#1. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins
#2. What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.
Peggy Toney Horton
#3. The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#4. And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.
Martha Grimes
#5. On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.
David Sedaris
#6. 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
#7. He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.
R.D. Ronald
#8. With your Christmas-Day-will-never-arrive-soon enough salivations, you anticipate the moment when, like voracious cub lions, you'll rip open the wrapping paper and feast off your every delicious present.
Carew Papritz
#9. Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.
Ron Rash
#10. My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
David Ayer
#11. A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#12. I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.
Milton Berle
#14. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Bob
Charles Dickens
#15. My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
Becky G
#16. Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher
#17. We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.
Mary Martin
#18. Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#19. Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.
Brian F. O'Byrne
#20. As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.
Thomas S. Monson
#21. Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)
Roma Gray
#22. I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.
Harry Redknapp
#23. We ought to love one another at Christmas and every day of the year.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy. I
Jenny Han
#25. I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.
Robert E.Lee
#26. I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill
#27. 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
#28. The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it "Always Advent," but every day can now be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all.
Richard Rohr
#29. I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.
Odilo Globocnik
#30. Don't spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.
Toni Sorenson
#31. Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#32. The day wears on. The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on.
Blake Crouch
#33. My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
Anna Quindlen
#34. The spirit of Christmas exists in harmonious carols like those sung by angels on the day of Christ's birth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. 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.
Evan Davis
#36. The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
James Lankford
#37. Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
Robert Lynd
#38. Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.
Caroline Kettlewell
#39. I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#40. Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.
Corey Ann Haydu
#41. Hot damn! Hunter was finally paying off with the hot guy friends. I knew this day would come, it was inevitable, but I was still overwhelmed with gratitude - Ev would be getting an extra nice Christmas present this year.
Genna Rulon
#42. I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.
Derek Blasberg
#43. a family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits taper off, until it's just, say, birthdays and Christmas. Eventually, most families move away, as far as they can get.
Paul Kalanithi
#44. My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
Meghan O'Rourke
#45. Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.
Matthew D. Heines
#46. Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
Samantha Isler
#47. Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.
Damien Echols
#48. Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
Leigh Hunt
#49. 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
#50. Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
William Parks
#51. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.
Chris Rose
#52. Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
Blake Lively
#53. I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
Allison Pearson
#54. I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die.
Craig Ferguson
#55. I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#56. I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
Karl Lagerfeld
#57. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.
Molly Sims
#58. It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
Julie Burchill
#59. In traveling about the city that day, Dodd was struck anew by the "extraordinary" German penchant for Christmas display. He saw Christmas trees everywhere, in every public square and every window. "One might think," he wrote, "the Germans believed in Jesus or practiced his teachings!
Erik Larson
#60. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid
#61. 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.
Monica Seles
#62. The older I get
the quicker Christmas comes,
but if I had to give up the heavenly
taste of Guinness dark, I couldn't
live another goddamn day. Darling,
you can chisel that into my headstone.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#63. He slept until noon on Christmas Day, until Josh came in and sprayed him with one their mom's salon water bottles.
Rainbow Rowell
#64. It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finnaly, inevitably won out.
Karen Swan
#65. The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#66. While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
St. Vincent
#67. Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#68. Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!
Washington Irving
#69. I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream 'No spoilers!' Every day on set I've had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!
Nick Frost
#70. Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
Booth Tarkington
#71. The thoughtfulness and goodwill messages from loved ones brighten my Christmas day.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. He had said it was only a twenty-one-mile drive to the Falls and should take half an hour on a good day. She'd been driving for over two hours so far. Obviously today wasn't a good day.
Nicki Edwards
#73. My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
Katharine McPhee
#74. I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
Dan Jenkins
#75. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.
Karen Armstrong
#76. We are really quite lucky this yeara because Christmas falls on Christmas Day
Bobby Gould
#77. It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.
Michael Dirda
#78. At the end of the school day, we walked the long, cold way home feeling happy and hungry. There we found a warm fire, country ham with gravy and hot biscuits, and a mother to hug us! If snow blew under the doors that night, what did it matter? Christmas time was just around the corner.
Jenny Lee Ellison
#79. The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
Henry Vaughan
#80. Peter's gone away on his training weekend. It's only been one day and I'm already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July. Peter is my cocoa in a cup, my red mittens, my Christmas morning feeling. He
Jenny Han
#81. Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
Helen Keller
#82. And when you are being kissed like this, you are Christmas Day; you are the moon shot; you are field larks. My shoes were suddenly worth a million pounds, and my breath was the ethyl in champagne. When someone kisses you like this, you are the point of everything.
Caitlin Moran
#83. He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that ... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
Joe Garagiola
#84. 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
Carolyn Wells
#85. It is St. Patrick's Day. And here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.
Michael Scott
#86. I was that kind of tired you feel when you've spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure.
Vicki Covington
#87. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller
#88. You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
Bill Callahan
#89. The day of the ball was spent preparing me much as one prepares a goose for Christmas, with the same ultimate effect.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#90. The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.
P. W. Singer
#91. Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold
#92. Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.
Christmas Humphreys
#93. On the day after Christmas, some store or another will always take out and ad saying there are only 364 shopping days to Christmas. No one is amused.
Gerard Del Re
#94. Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.
Jack Nelson
#95. Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...
Edwin Lionel Flynn
#96. Advent is a season that is a borderland. A new year is coming. We're waiting for the coming of Jesus, both for his birth on Christmas Day and for his coming again on the Last Day.
Heidi Haverkamp
#97. When I try to picture heaven, I see a place where it's always December, every radio station plays hair bands, and every time I check my pockets they're full of Hershey's Kisses. There's a Christmas parade on every street, every day is my birthday, and the sun always sets at 4:58 p.m.
Damien Echols
#98. Celebrate the life you have been gifted thus far, supporting the arrival of Christmas day.
Eleesha
#99. And though in the clockless, temperature-controlled casino night, words like 'day' and 'Christmas' were fairly meaningless constructs, 'happiness,' amidst the loudly clinked glasses, didn't seem quite such a doomed or fatal idea.
Donna Tartt
#100. Use this day to honor the memory of Christmas - whilst it remains celebrated in your life.
Eleesha
