Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
John Clayton

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Edna Ferber

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Doug Coupland

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
Bryan White

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
A. E. van Vogt

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
Amy Grant

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
Dennis Franz

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.
Keith Thibodeaux

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

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Richard Roeper