264 private quotes tagged christmas

“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.”— Chris Brown

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”— Benjamin Franklin

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”— Johnny Carson

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”— T. S. Eliot

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”— George Carlin

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

“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”— Ronald Reagan

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”— Dr. Seuss

“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”— E. B. White

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”— Bob Hope

“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”— Franklin P. Adams

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”— Dave Barry

“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.”— Ronald Reagan

“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.”— Richard Dawkins

“Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.”— Lauren Graham

“My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.”— Jimmy Fallon

“I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.”— Florence Welch

“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

“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.”— Tori Amos

“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”— Beth Henley

“Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.”— Mira Nair

“My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.”— Mario Batali

“It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.”— Diane Kruger

“I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.”— Christina Applegate