Quotes on Christmas

Famous Quotes on Christmas

Here are some funny quotes and famous quotations related to Christmas and the sayings that incorporate the spirit of
Christmas in them:

* There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
- Bill McKibben
* Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
* Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
- Hamilton Wright Mabi
* Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
- George Mathhew Adams
* Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
* Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
- Anonymous
* If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
- Anonymous
* From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
- Emily Matthews
* The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
- Jay Leno
* A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
- Anonymous
* He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
- Sunshine Magazine
* What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
- Agnes M. Pharo
* Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year's gifts.
- Anonymous
* 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
* The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
- W. C. Jones
* The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis
* I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller
* Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas Stamps

Mail used to be sent free; the delivery was paid for by the recipient. But in 1837, an English schoolmaster named Rowland Hill noticed that the post office lost out too much by recipients refusing delivery. He proposed prepaid stamps in a pamphlet called The Post Office Reform. On 1 May 1840, the first stamps went on sale in Britain. (The Christmas card was invented 3 years later.) They were the One-Penny Black and Twopence Blue stamps, featuring Queen Victoria. In 1870, the British Post Office introduced a half penny stamp for sending cards.

No provision was made for separating the stamps one from another. To do so required a knife or a pair of scissors. In 1847 an Irish engineer named Henry Archer submitted a plan to the British Post Office for perforating stamp sheets. By 1854 Archer's machine was sufficiently perfected to produce the first perforated stamps. The United States began using a perforating machine in 1857.

The first Christmas stamp Canada issued a stamp with the Mercator map "Christmas 1898" inscribed. Post offices in England and the Netherlands also issued stamps with Christmas-related themes. In the US, postcard artist Ellen H. Clapsaddle designed Christmas themes for stamps. However, none were special Christmas issues. The first postage stamp for Christmas was issued in 1937 in Austria: the Rose and Signs of the Zodiac stamp.

The first official US Christmas stamp was launched in 1962. This year, the US Post Office will print more than 4 billion Christmas postage stamps. They can even be bought at some ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) using a bank card: 18 stamps are printed out on a sheet the size of a $1 bill.

Christmas seals
The Christmas stamp on your Christmas card may be accompanied by a Christmas seal, an idea conceived by a Danish postal clerk and first issued by Denmark in 1904 to raise money for tuberculosis. In the same year, Sweden and Iceland followed with their versions later in the same year. In 1907, American Red Cross worker Emily Bissell followed the Danish Christmas seal success with a simple red and white seal to raise money to save her local TB sanatorium. It was so successful that in 1908 the American Red Cross ran the campaign national wide. Since 1973, the Christmas seal campaign has been organised by the American Lung Association.

"Christmas" towns
You might want to use your Christmas stamps, and Christmas seals, for letters you want to send someone in a town called Christmas in the USA. In fact, there are 140 "Christmas" place names in the US, including Merry Christmas Creek, Alaska; Christmas Gift Mine in Pinal County, Arizona; and Merrie Christmas Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

You'll even find 11 towns called "Santa Claus" in 8 US states: Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah. And 50 "Noel" place names, including communities named Noel in Colorado, Missouri, and Virginia. You'll find Noel Lake in Spencer County, Indiana, near the community of Santa Claus.

All about Christmas
The word philately was coined in 1864. It comes from two Greek words that mean "the love of tax-free things."

John Grossman, noted California collector/designer and long-time member of the Ephemera Society of America, has a collection of 200,000 Victorian Christmas stamps. He has licensed the stamp designs to the US Post Office via his business, The Gifted Line, John Grossman, Inc.

Christmas Flower Ideas

Christmas Flower

Christmas flowers are symbolic of gaiety, love, beauty and hope, and all the most tender emotions in the human heart such as sharing, happiness, joy, kindness and virtues that make Christmas more special than any other Christian festival. Of ten used to decorate homes during holiday season as wreaths and Christmas centerpieces, people also exchange them as Christmas gifts in the form of bouquets and floral baskets. Flowers and greenery add interesting land festive look to the homes and tune us up with the spirit of Christmas.

You can buy several beautifully prepared Christmas floral arrangements from the local flower shops or Internet retailers to gift them to the hosts of the Christmas parties you are attending this year and also send them to the family, friends and loved ones who are not with you to share the joys of the Christmas season or are out of town using a few simple clicks. Though Christmas flowers encompass all the varieties of flowers including the tropical ones these days because of the global connectivity and quick communication and transportation facilities, still, Poinsettias and Christmas Roses continue to enjoy a special place in Christmas celebration because of the beautiful legends that attach them to this particular festival.

Top 10 Christmas Songs

Christmas holiday is the time for celebrations, for merriment and for having fun. What better way to have fun that get together with your family and friends and have a smashing party? One of the most essential ingredients of a Christmas party is a collection of some of the best as well as the most popular Christmas songs. Check out the list of the top 10 or ten favorite Christmas songs given below. These songs are also quite famous as Christmas carols.

* White Christmas by Bing Crosby
* Last Christmas by George Michael
* Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry
* I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus by Jimmy Boyd
* Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms
* The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole
* Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen
* Here Comes Santa Claus by Gene Autry
* Little Drummer Boy by Harry Simeone Chorale
* Donde Esta Santa Claus by Augie Rios

Christmas Morning Lyrics

Christmas Morning is a beautiful Christmas song, from the album 'The Road to Ensenada'. Given below are the lyrics of the song, which has been sung by Lovett Lyle.


The girl at the grocery she's pretty and seems nice
But she looks right through me with eyes cold as ice
She never answers when I ask her name
She only says I should have a great day

But hey what could she mean by that
Perhaps I'm the fool she takes me for
Not anything more.

I guess it's the season the time of the year
When people they're happy and full of good cheer
Well they'll wish you and kiss you and wish you again
And they'll tell you its peace and good will to all men.

But hey what could they mean by that
Perhaps I'm the fool they take me for
Not anything more.

We stood at the altar and you held my hand
And everyone watched as the preacher he asked
Will you take him and love him for bad and for good
You looked at me then you told him you would.

But hey what did you mean by that
Perhaps I'm the fool you take me for
Not anything more.

Now each Christmas morning I sit in my chair
And I look up at the angels that float through the air
Some look down upon me, some come to my side
And they tell me that Jesus he said to say hi.

The Christmas Song

'The Christmas Song', sung by Torme and Wells, encompass the essence of the family Christmas. Check out the lyrics of the song given below.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos

Everybody knows some tofu and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa's on his way
He's loaded lots of toys
And goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly

And so, I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it's been said
Many times, many ways

Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to You!

Last Christmas Lyrics

Last Christmas is one of the most popular Christmas songs of the 1980s. Given below are the lyrics of the song, which has been sung by George Michael.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.

Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby, do you recognize me?
Well it's been a year it doesn't surprise me
(Happy Christmas!)
I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying, "I love you" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.

A crowded room, friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God I thought you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on.

A face of a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Now I've found a real love you'll never fool me again.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
A face of a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Maybe next year
I'll give it to someone
I'll give it to someone special.