I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six.
Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world -
stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death -
and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago
is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.
- Henry Van Dyke

The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.
They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
- O. Henry

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should.
We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -
the longer, the better – from the great boarding school where we are forever working
at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
- Charles Dickens

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