Hi Sim Friends!
My Gift for you today are some Christmas quotes
and a few pix to go along with them.
There are so many GREAT Christmas Quotes
it was hard to choose from them all.
Same thing with the pictures!
Hope you enjoy them!
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
“Our hearts grow tender
with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,
become a child again at Christmastime.”
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
“My idea of Christmas,
whether old-fashioned or modern,
is very simple: loving others.
Come to think of it,
why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
~ Bob Hope
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
~ Mary Ellen Chase
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
One of the most glorious messes in the world
is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.
Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ Andy Rooney
“He who has not Christmas in his heart
will never find it under a tree.”
~ Roy L. Smith
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back
to the delusions of our childish days;
that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth;
that can transport the sailor and the traveler,
thousands of miles away,
back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
~ Charles Dickens
A lovely thing about Christmas
is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm,
and we all go through it together.”
~ Garrison Keillor
Christmas is a necessity.
There has to be at least one day of the year
to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.”
~ Eric Sevareid
Christmas Eve was a night of song
that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.
But it warmed more than your body.
It warmed your heart...
filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
“Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.”
~ Helen Steiner Rice
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
~ Dale Evans Rogers
Christmas!
The very word brings joy to our hearts.
No matter how we may dread the rush,
the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--
when Christmas Day comes there is still the same
warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth
that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
~ Joan Winmill Brown
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.
In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall”
~ Larry Wilde
Christmas is the gentlest,
loveliest festival of the revolving year -
and yet, for all that, when it speaks,
its voice has strong authority.”
~ W.J. Cameron
One of the things that Christmas reminds us
is that Jesus Christ was once a child.”
~ Hark Herald Sarmiento
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars
and open a jar of it every month.”
~ Harlan Miller
“The true Christmas spirit
is putting others’ happiness before our own,
and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”
~ Toni Sorenson
“I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.”
~ Charles Dickens
“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore.
"Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair.
People will insist on giving me books.”
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas?
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty,
welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies,
and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
~ Steve Maraboli
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
~ Charles M. Schulz
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy,
is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
~ Calvin Coolidge
“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever.
Little food. No presents.
But there was a snowman in their basement.”
~ Markus Zusak
“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys,
showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,
and that Christmas Day in the company of children
is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”
~ Robert Lynd
“Are you willing to stoop down
and consider the needs and desires of little children;
to remember the weaknesses and loneliness
of people who are growing old;
to stop asking how much your friends love you,
and to ask yourself if you love them enough;
to bear in mind the things that other people
have to bear on their hearts;
to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke,
and to carry it in front so that your shadow
will fall behind you;
to make a grave for your ugly thoughts
and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open?
Are you willing to do these things for a day?
Then you are ready to keep Christmas!”
~ Henry Van Dyke
“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story,
singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit,
we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
“I know what I really want for Christmas.
I want my childhood back.
Nobody is going to give me that.
I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try.
I know it doesn't make sense,
but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway?
It is about a child, of long ago and far away,
and it is about the child of now.
In you and me.
Waiting behind the door
of our hearts for something wonderful to happen.
A child who is impractical, unrealistic,
simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.”
~ Robert Fulghum
“Christmas isn't a parade or concert
but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.”
~ Donna VanLiere
“Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be.”
~ Lauren Myracle
“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day.
We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness
and humanity of the whole year.
As for me, I like to take my Christmas
a little at a time, all through the year.
And thus I drift along into the holidays -
let them overtake me unexpectedly -
waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself:
'Why, this is Christmas Day!”
~ Ray Stannard Baker
“Christmas is not only where you find it;
it's what you make of it.”
~ Trina Schart Hyman
“Christmas is best pondered, not with logic,
but with imagination.”
~ Max Lucado
“I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...
as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time;
the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year,
when men and women seem by one consent
to open their shut-up hearts freely,
and to think of people below them as if they really were
fellow-passengers to the grave,
and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
~ Marjorie Holmes
Hope you liked your Gift for today!
See you tomorrow with
Gift Fifteen!
