Rory MacLean best Christmas Quotes – “To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.”
Tony Bradman best Christmas Quotes – “I have to confess that I’ve never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it’s known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It’s mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I’m also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.”
Joshua Oppenheimer best Christmas Quotes – “In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.”
Kate Williams best Christmas Quotes – “Britain’s passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times – both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.”
Donald Hall best Christmas Quotes – “I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day… It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.”
Jay Samit best Christmas Quotes – “Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.”
Johnny Galecki best Christmas Quotes – “I’m still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can’t do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn’t compute – it’s not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.”
Greg Rucka best Christmas Quotes – “The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.”
Gladys Taber best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
Christopher Buckley best Christmas Quotes – “The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.”
Kendall Jenner best Christmas Quotes – “I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.”
Jay Parini best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.”
Jay Parini best Christmas Quotes – “The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.”
Jay Parini best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth – those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.”
Jay Parini best Christmas Quotes – “The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.”