One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 25
A Literary Christmas
Today I’m sharing some of my favourite Christmas quotes. May your day be filled with family, friendship, food and faith as you celebrate with loved ones.
1. And then the rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
2. Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
3. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope
4. Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever. Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
6. Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving
7. Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. Gladys Taber
8. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
9. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more! Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
10. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! Hamilton Wright Mabie
11. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
12. I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. Norman Vincent Peale
13. Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. Dr. Seuss
14. It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
15. 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
16. I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn’t make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy. Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
17.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. Professor Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter book by J.K Rowling.
19. Let’s just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don’t, and that’s cool. But we’re probably right. Amen. Homer Simpson
20. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house/Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
21. Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white. Bing Crosby
22. Always winter but never Christmas. CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
23. Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas. Charles Dickens
24. And so this is Christmas . . . what have you done? John Lennon
25. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving
26. God bless us, every one! Charles Dickens
27. He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
28. Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. George W. Truett
29. Mankind is a great, an immense family … This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope John Paul XXIII
30. Love the giver more than the gift. Brigham Young
31. Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
32. 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,
33. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge
34.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. Andy Rooney
35. Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. Larry Wilde
36. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens
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