Great christmas sayings

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◆ As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

- Eric Sevareid99

◆ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

- Bill McKibben99

◆ Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

- Joan Mills99

◆ What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

- Agnes M Pharo99

◆ Do give books, religious or otherwise, for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

- Lenore Hershey99

◆ My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still.

- Charlton Heston99

◆ Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

- Robert Lynd99

◆ It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

- Isabel Currier99

◆ They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.

- Mrs Paul M Ell99

◆ Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.

- Margaret Cousins99

◆ Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

- Grace Noll Crowell99

◆ 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 Rooney99

◆ Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

- Hugh Downs99

◆ The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

- Charles N Barnard99

◆ 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 Hope99