3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
3 December 2020 A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy’s weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
3 December 2020 Jack Steinberger In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
3 December 2020 Jose Mourinho I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
3 December 2020 Robert Teeter I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan’s record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
3 December 2020 Spike Jonze It’s fun when you start a movie, because it’s kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping… you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
3 December 2020 Hugh Bonneville A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
3 December 2020 David Friedman I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
3 December 2020 Ian St. John I don’t want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn’t sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
3 December 2020 Robert Staughton Lynd There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
3 December 2020 Tony Visconti Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I’m so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
3 December 2020 Suzy Bogguss I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
3 December 2020 Pico Iyer My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
3 December 2020 Bernard Manning I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen – classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen’s Christmas Day broadcast.
3 December 2020 Johnny Galecki I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about… jeez, I guess it was when I was doing ‘Christmas Vacation’, so I was about 13 or 14.
3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld That’s the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.
3 December 2020 Whitley Strieber Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me – that of going up to town and ‘doing a show.’
3 December 2020 John Clayton The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
3 December 2020 Andrea Arnold I’m sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
