“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.”
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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
“I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.”
“My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.”
“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
“The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.”
“I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.”
“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”
“What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”
“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
“Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.”
“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.”
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.”
“That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.”
“At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”
“Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.”
“As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.”
“Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.”