54 Christmas quotes about family

'Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.'

Winnie the Pooh

'Mankind is a great, immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.'

Pope John XXIII

'The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.'

Burton Hills

'Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.'

Dr Seuss

'Yes it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. '

Mother Teresa

'I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another.'

Carrie Fisher

'My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?'

Bob Hope

'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

'Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.'

Malaika Arora Khan

'Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.'

Dale Evans Rogers

'It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be much mistletoe-ing, and hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near.'

George Wyle and Eddie Pola

'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

'Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.'

Janice Maeditere

'May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.'

Anonymous

'My fondest memories of Christmas include our family traditions of putting treasured ornaments and lights on the tree.'

June Cotner

'Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.'

Charles M. Schulz

'Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas eve.'

Carrie Latet

'Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.'

Peg Bracken

'Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day to spend in the warm circle of family and friends.'

Margaret Thatcher

'Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.'

W.J Tucker

'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

'Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.'

Freya Stark

'One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.'

Andy Rooney

'At Christmas, all roads lead home.'

Marjorie Holmes

'The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.'

Richard Paul Evans

'The merry family gatherings–
The old, the very young;
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonise 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

'Christmas is the season of joy, of gift-giving, and of families united.'

Norman Vincent Peale

'Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'

'Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.'

Mary Ellen Chase

'I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent.'

Taylor Caldwell

'Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.'

Norman Wesley Brooks

'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

'Christmas time is cherished family time. Family time is sacred time.'

Anonymous

'As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognise that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.'

Gordon B. Hinckley

'The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.'

Louisa May Alcott

'Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.'

Larry Wilde

'We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life's busy ways.'

J. R. Miller

'Christmas Eve, a perfect night to express affection for your family, to forgive those who failed you, and to forget past mistakes.'

'A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.'

Garrison Keillor

'Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.'

Ronald Reagan

'I love presents, but since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.'

Jacob Latimore

'I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.'

Amy Adams

'Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.'

Thomas S. Monson

'Christmas is, of course, the time to be home, in heart as well as body.'

Garry Moore

'Love the giver more than the gift.'

Brigham Young

'The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.'

Henry David Thoreau

'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. Randel

'I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.'

Hillary Scot

'It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.'

Caroline Kennedy

'Don't get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season is simply love.'

Toni Sorenson

'And so I'm offering this simple phrase to kids from one to 92. Although it's been said many times, many ways, merry Christmas to you.'

Robert Wells

'Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.'

Pindar

'Christmas now surrounds us, happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks. As carols fill the air.'

Shirley Sallay

'Let's have a merry Christmas and the most wonderful New Year, as we continue on through life, with the family we hold dear.'

Noreen Braman