Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. "
Nancy Pearcey
Celebrate
Thought
Christmas
Related Quotes:
" Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second. "
Dana Goodyear
Retro
Christmas
Help
" A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house. "
Caroline Leavitt
House
Christmas
Better
" Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package. "
Jon Katz
Gift
Furniture
See
" I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family. "
Jacob Latimore
Older
Love
Family
" Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. "
B. B. King
Christmas
School
Black
" The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation. "
Karen Robards
Transportation
Christmas
Own
" I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards. "
Paul O'Grady
Christmas
Community
Cards
" Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to. "
Christina Perri
Singing
Listening
Memory
" In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! "
Lloyd Kaufman
Die
Christmas
People
" Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush. "
Alan Colmes
Good
You
Christmas
" I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me. "
Brian Posehn
Christmas
Years
San Diego
" The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be. "
Monica Johnson
Journey
God
Christmas
" Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches. "
Paul Engle
Child
Always
Christmas
" My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in. "
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Green
Children
Red
" I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. "
Henry Rollins
Paper
War
Christmas
" Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. "
Richard Roeper
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Week
" Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories. "
John Boyne
Loved
Christmas
Ghost
" I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies. "
Mo Rocca
Me
Peace
Army
" Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months. "
Jacques Torres
You
Two
Numbers
" I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays. "
Bryson Tiller
Going Home
Bus
People
" When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.' "
Zach Anner
Christmas
Five
Old
" My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years. "
Mary Berry
Dress
Tree
Son
" I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23. "
Mary Steenburgen
Belief
Up
Treat
" It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas. "
Ian Watson
Enough
Christmas
You
" The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture. "
Jose Andres
Culture
Will
You
" Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. "
Stephen Fry
Child
Travel
First
" In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. "
Jack Steinberger
New York
American
Children
" To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out. "
Amber Le Bon
Great
Love
Me
" I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant. "
Nia Vardalos
Day
People
Movies
" Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. "
Pope Francis
Christmas
Inner
Joy