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Christmas quotes about children

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

William Saroyan

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

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

Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

When we ask our children 'What do you want for Christmas?', we are asking a question that breeds selfishness. In order to develop selflessness we should be asking 'What are you going to give?'

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Some businessmen are saying this could be the greatest Christmas ever. I always thought that the first one was.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

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

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning