#christmas

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season. ↗

— Will Self

#food

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#humor #thanksgiving #humor

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. ↗

— Eva K. Logue

#love

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds," 1954 ↗

— E.B. White

#music

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#christmas

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ↗

— Richard Bach

#christmas #idea #states #united #united states

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. ↗

— Evan Davis

#american #another #bad #black #christmas

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#basically #christmas #come #home #i

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. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#based #christianity #christians #evidence #him