3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
3 December 2020 Muddy Waters I got up one Christmas morning and we didn’t have nothing to eat. We didn’t have an apple, we didn’t have an orange, we didn’t have a cake, we didn’t have nothing.
3 December 2020 April Winchell Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
3 December 2020 James Cronin Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
3 December 2020 James Irwin The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
3 December 2020 Shirley Temple I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
3 December 2020 Christina Perri Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.
3 December 2020 Dennis Bergkamp It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
3 December 2020 Grazia Deledda According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
3 December 2020 Lucy Hale I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that’s not the case with all people and I don’t think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It’s blasphemy.
3 December 2020 Mo Rocca One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
3 December 2020 Margot Kidder My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
3 December 2020 Chris Frantz Besides the two Christmas things, we’ve got a about a dozen new tracks we’re working on.
3 December 2020 Frank McCourt We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
3 December 2020 Lucy Hale My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – I’ll be needing that to die in.
3 December 2020 Michael Scheuer ‘The war in Iraq – if Osama was a Christian – it’s the Christmas present he never would have expected.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
3 December 2020 David Friedrich Strauss The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
3 December 2020 Gina Gershon I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
3 December 2020 Alfred E. Smith No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
3 December 2020 Jamie Foxx I’m bad on Valentine’s Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o’clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I’m in Toys’R’Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.
3 December 2020 Burt Ward I make personal appearances around the country. I’m starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I’m doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
3 December 2020 Johann Lamont I’ve taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.
3 December 2020 Christie Hefner From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money – either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
