“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. – Peg Bracken
“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 Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
“Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper, and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.” – Tove Jansson
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson

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“I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.” – Hillary Scott
“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” – Dale Evans
“Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” – Tom Baker
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! – Hamilton Wright Mabi
“There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” – Frosty the Snowman
“Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
“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
“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.” – Harlan Miller
“Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.” – Harlan Miller
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
“From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.” – Emily Matthews

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“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see the joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” – Thomas S. Monson
“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
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” – Richard Paul Evans
“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
“The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in, or what kind of year you’ve had–it’s a fresh start.” – Kelly Clarkson”The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hills
“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
“For Christmas is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.” – Helen Lowrie MarshallWe are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“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
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson

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“Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” – Freya Stark
“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.” – John J. Geddes
“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
“We count down the days, just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all.” – Joanna Gaines
“City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style. In the air, there’s a feeling of Christmas.” – Ray Evans, “Silver Bells”
“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirits in jars and open a jar of it every month.” – Harlan Miller
“The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.” – Kelly Clarkson
“Walking in a winter wonderland.” – “Winter Wonderland”
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
“Joy to the world, the Lord comes, let earth receive her King.” –“Joy to the World”
“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone.” – Deborah Whipp