Christmas Quotes for Family Gatherings

• At Christmas a man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime... - Edgar Guest
• Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. 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. Rundel
• Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart... - Freya Stark
• Christmas is the one time of year when you can count on smiling faces and bright lights and awesome gifts and giant twinkling trees and family reunions and childish games and believing in that old man that you know doesn't exist. Christmas is the time when dreams come true. - Unknown
• Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. - Mary Ellen Chase
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! - Charles Dickens
• If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. - Unknown
• 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 Christmas-time. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. - Unknown
• Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight. - Unknown
• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. - Burton Hillis
• The merry family gatherings-- The old, the very young; The strangely lovely way they Harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time-- Traditions that recall The precious memories down the years, The sameness of them all. - Helen Lowrie Marshall
• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete. - Charles Dickens
• When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, And etched on vacant places Are half-forgotten faces Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• X-mas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christian rhyme, logs on the fire and gifts on the tree, time to rejoice in the good that we see. - Cliff