Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

“At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

It doesn’t surprise me. People generally underestimate what they’re going to spend for the holidays.

Its not about the place we want to visit , its about with whom we visit.

The other houses in the neighborhood had Christmas lights up and trees visible in their windows, but not Shae’s. She and I were the only ones who didn’t care anymore, and I liked that about her.

People think the only time the earth is renewed is in spring. I find it’s renewed around Christmastime when hard, old hearts are softened. When children’s laughter drowns out anguish. When magic transforms the dull into something beautiful and sparkly. I find that Christmas time changes me … from the inside out, and even for...

Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts.

If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you … and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self.

The spirit of Christmas is found when we lift the load of others.

When you’re rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior of Mankind.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that...

He’s been away on holidays in Europe and was due back at work on Monday. It’s quite unbelievable the fact that he won’t be there.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look...

Thank you,” he says.”Thank who?””I don’t know. You?””No, not me. Jesus.””Thank you, Jesus?””Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.

Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on holidays.

There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks.There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers.There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart.There...

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.

Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.

Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That’s the real sparkle in Christmas.

Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children’s laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories.

I’m off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

He stood there tall and dashing, peering down at her with a set of mesmerizing sapphire eyes. It wasn’t the eyes that had her sex-drive squealing into overdrive; it was that…hair. Now, Tarrah had never really been into redheads before, but damn, she sure as hell would be willing to convert.

What is the spirit of Christmas, you ask? Let me give you the answer in a true story…On a cold day in December, feeling especially warm in my heart for no other reason than it was the holiday season, I walked through the store sporting a big grin on my face. Though most people were...

You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there’s a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes

If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I’d better get a good nights sleep.

Holidays remind me of a happy time.

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy’s,” adds another Mardi Gras girl. “All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

We hustled well and went for every ball, but the holidays caused us to be a bit winded. We had too many turnovers in the second quarter (16) and we’re going to have to fix that part of our game for league play.

Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just be, and let yourself feel what you feel, the guilt creeps in. Because you’re alive and the world is big,...

It will be important to get back out and establish ourselves. I think we’re right where we want to be right now. We’ve been working hard over the holidays and I think the girls are ready.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale…

It has been kind of wearing on me. I got through the holidays OK but then it was like, ‘OK, I want to get back to work.’ Sure, it’s frustrating but I have been through this before.

Keeping Christ in Christmas” is like showing up at someone’s house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.