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Christmas Quotes For Seniors

Christmas Quotes For Seniors

Here are some great christmas quotes from the past to share with older friends and family this holiday season.

  • “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
  • “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • “Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” – Zuzu Bailey, “It’s A Wonderful Life”
  • “The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.” – Phillips Brooks
  • “I believe… I believe… It’s silly, but I believe.” – Susan, Miracle on 34th Street
  • “That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their blackberry, they just happen.” – Deck the Halls (2006)
  • “Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” – Augusta E. Randel
  • “Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air.” – Shirley Sallay
  • “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis
  • “Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” – Norman Wesley Brooks
  • “Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.” ― B.C. Forbes
  • “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp
  • “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
  • “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro
  • “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” ―Peg Bracken
  • “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
  • “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
  • “Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” ― Pope John XXIII
  • “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” – Theodor Seuss Geisel, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
  • “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Suess
  • “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  • “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hills
  • “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith
  • “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Christmas, my child, is love in action.” – Dale Evans
  • “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Will Ferrell, Elf
  • “I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” – Harlan Miller
  • “There’s nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.” ― Jenny Han
  • “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
  • “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” — Washington Irving
  • “Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.” – Phyllis Diller
  • “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And wild and sweet, the words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.” — The Polar Express
  • “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
  • “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
  • “I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.” — Carrie Fisher
  • “Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
  • “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher
  • “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.” – Bing Crosby
  • “No man is a failure who has friends.” — It’s a Wonderful Life
  • “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
  • “Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase
  • “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
  • “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
  • “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” —Edna Ferber
  • “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
  • “May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”
  • “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.” – Shirley Temple

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