#christmas

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?' ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#christmas #ever #gave #gift #girl

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. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#before #being #christmas #endless #faster

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

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carolina #carolinas #chains #christmas #down

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#christmas #did #eight #fact #five

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

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#charity #fire #flame #genial #hall

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. ↗

— Steve Israel

#any #attempts #ban #christmas #claus

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#christmas #cynical #edge #feel #i