...that puts Christmas in the air.

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~ Harlan Miller



Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.
~ Charlotte Carpenter



Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
~ Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American singer and film actor



At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer



The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
~ Charles N. Barnard, American author, travel writer



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. Rundell

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~ Charles Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist



Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
~ Deborah Whipp, web designer



Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author



Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man."
~ Margaret Cousins (1905- ), senior editor Doubleday Publishing Company



There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.
~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940)



I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author



Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
~ Peg Bracken



It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer



When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian



Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress