Quotes about Christmas

“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”

“Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.”

“Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.”

“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.”

“I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.”

“We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.”

“When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.”

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

“So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.”

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

“My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.”

“Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.”

“The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.”

“It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.”

“The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad.”

“My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.”

“Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.”

“I loved the first Christmas I had in England.”

“I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.”

“There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.”

“As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.”