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Christmas Quotes

Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.

That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.

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That night they made love, the kind of love-making that is another country, a country of its own, not yours or mine. (p144)

Nadine Gordimer The Pickup (2001)

Swanee!
How I love you, how I love you,
My dear ol' Swanee!
I'd give the world to be
Among the folks in
D-I-X-I-E

Irving Caesar Swanee (1919)

Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.

Patrick Stump

The popular anti-war slogan from the 1960’s says it best: “Make love, not war.”

Newton Lee

I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.

Arthur Symons

Nihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care. Any disease of the soul must be conquered by a turning of one’s soul. (p19)

Cornel West Race Matters (1993)

And pray that a wreath like a rainbow
May slip from the beautiful past,
And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love
And keep me, and hold me fast.

Voltairine de Cleyre And Thou Too (1888)

Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.

Richard Matheson The New York Times interview (1994)

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks (2003)

Who loves me, loves my dog.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The erotic element is life, but doesn't have to absorb you, it doesn't have to be a naughty word. It's the love of life in many ways.

Martha Graham New York Times interview (1985)

I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.

Sarah Palin

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.

Sarah Palin

The love of art.. ..reconciles us to our lined faces and white hear. [Berthe Morisot was 40 years then]

Berthe Morisot

Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.

Bill Hybels Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

love is a sharing of a mutual delusion.

David Gerrold When HARLIE Was One (1972)

he silently acknowledged he did love her and that he would not hesitate to give his own life to bring her safely back.

Naguib Mahfouz The Thief and the Dogs (1961)

The moral choices that Trump poses to anyone with a conscience or love of country are only made more clear by the ludicrous irony of his own story.

Richard Wolffe Let's drop the euphemisms: Donald Trump is a racist president (2018)

“I have matured, I am wiser, I love being 33. I am not afraid of aging or embarrassed that I am now in my 30s,”

Gaona Dintwe

Ah, I’m a painter. I mean I’ve always tried other mediums. I’ve loved etching. I’ve worked with relief. I love paper. I’ve been recycling, making paper.”

Helen Lieros

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