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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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I love that I draw my strength from the strong women who fought against oppression and marched in 1956

Khabonina Qubeka

I love words, I really love the pleasure and consolation you get from words. Words can be nourishing or medicinal or at their worst, poisonous.

Lorna Goodison Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets (2000)

Jesus did not promise to take away our cross. He told us to carry it on our shoulders, but with Jesus, the cross becomes all love.

Marthe Robin

I think it’s how we show love. My love language is showering people with gifts. I also reciprocate feelings when someone shows me love

Ayanda Gugulethu Thabethe

We loved the mountains. Togliatti was a keen walker, as was I.

Nilde Iotti

I am who I am because of the kind of love I was shown by my family

Cobhams Asuquo

[God] You love hateful people whose vices you know.

Claude La Colombière

It was very difficult. But through the support I had from them, I stayed motivated to continue doing something I love – playing football.

Oswin Appollis

...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.

Erica Jong Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

"But then there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud,- 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de white folks!'"

Sojourner Truth Olive Gilbert & Sojourner Truth (1878)

I'll try to say a little more:
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door —
Then Love Itself
Love Itself was gone.

Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (2001)

You shut your mouth,
How can you say I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Morrissey

If I loved you, well that's my fault

Conor Oberst Conor Oberst (2008)

“There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.”

Sandra Bullock Parade interview (2009)

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. ― [6]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

Gabriel García Márquez Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'm a dog lover. Actually, I love my dog, I don't give a shit about your dog. I don't know your dog. Your dog could be an asshole, I don't know.

Ron White

'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,
Thinking your face so strangely young . . . '
'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

Conrad Aiken The House of Dust (1916)

Do not seek for love outside of you...

Paulo Coelho My 25 most important points (2014)

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