#christmas

I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. "A Plantation Christmas," 1934 ↗

— Julia Peterkin

#change

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#again #become #choice #christian #christian faith

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#away #beginning #christmas #even #half

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#campaigns #celebrating #christmas #coca-cola #cultures

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. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#bound #charities #children #christmas #find

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#got #i #learning #spanish #stone

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#check #christmas #feeling #locate #me

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? ↗

— Ian St. John

#christmas #dance #decorating #digging #does

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#christmas #city #gift #i #present

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#christmas #christmas eve #down #eve #got