Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
Art: You want to hurry this up, Clark? I'm freezing my baguettes off.
Herb Brooks: [opening his Christmas gift - a bullwhip] It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.
Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
