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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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Most quoted on christmas:

I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)

Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. (p. 208)

Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

[Ah, Love...] which formed I don't know where,
That came I don't know how, and hurts I don't know why.

Luís de Camões Poets of Portugal (2006)

When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either. (p. 203)

Stig Dagerman A Burnt Child (1948)

I love Wikipedia. I donated thousands of dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.

John Stossel

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet. (p. 85)

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (2006)

Science fiction and fantasy are already about subverting paradigms. It's something I love about them.

Nalo Hopkinson collected in Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (1999)

I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

Kirk Douglas Interview by Roger Ebert (1969)

But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. p. 17

Renata Adler Pitch Dark (1983)

You chose, as I choose
to despair, or not
on a given night or day.
That despair turned inside out
you called love.

Ana Castillo I Ask The Impossible (2000)

"Be honest with your work, you’ll get everything you desire & success will loves you!!!" in official Facebook (28 December 2020) Retrieved on 5 January 2021.

Shakib Khan

I love all animals and nature. I just find that the more I learn about the world the more exciting and fascinating it all is.

Linda Hogan Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

It is a life of constant observation and learning. Sometimes, other than love and tenderness for our own, what else is there to learn in this world for us?

Linda Hogan with ‘’Fiction Advocate (2023)

I’ve always loved the short story form. Short stories are like little gems that you can keep polishing and polishing in your aim for perfection.

Patricia Grace Interview (2016)

Despite the character's darkness, Gary invested... Dracula was not simply to be feared, but also to be loved.

James V. Hart

Hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. (chapter 2, p71)

Keri Hulme The Bone People (1984)

I had one programming elective and I fell in love with it. A lecturer at the university said you’re obviously good at programming, just follow your passion.

Jamila Gordon

I felt something I had not felt in church or in school. I had a feeling of Divine Love. That changed my life forever.

Gina Lopez

We cannot protect what we do not love.

Gina Lopez

I love trying new things and I avoid allowing fear to get in the way. So when the opportunity came, I did my best.

Larona Moagi

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