“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
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.”
– Bing Crosby
“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller
“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
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
— Alexander Smith
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Peace on earth will come to stay When we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens
“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase
“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
“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
