80 Christmas Quotes About Family To Share With Your Loved Ones

“No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas.” —Dolly Parton

Whether you're deep frying a turkey, hanging a magnolia wreath, or stuffing stockings with fresh oranges, there's no question that a Southern Christmas doesn't always look like a snowy New England postcard. But it doesn't make the season any less magical for Southerners and their families. In fact, it makes the holidays all the more special.

Use one of these inspiring Christmas quotes about family to sign a greeting card, DIY a sign for your home, bestow wisdom on your children, or just make your family smile.

Christmas Quotes About Love For Family

• "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others." —Bob Hope

• "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."—Bill Vaughan

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

• "Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us." —David Cameron
  

• "If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time." —Faith Hill
  

• "Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."—Janice Maeditere

• "Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows." —Edwin Osgood Grover
  

• “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” —Hamilton Wright Mabie

• “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” —Washington Irving

• “As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.” —Gordon B. Hinckley

• "Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold." —Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

• "When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special." —Catherine Pulsifer

• “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” — Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life

• “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” —Rosie Thomas
  

Humorous Christmas Quotes

• “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” —Dan Florence

• “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” —Victor Borge

• “Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” —Dave Barry

• “I hate the radio this time of year because they play 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.” —Bridger Winegar

• “Adults can take a simple holiday for children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.” —Erma Bombeck

• “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” —Garrison Keillor

• “I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.” —Henny Youngman

• "There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus." —Bob Phillips

• “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup.” — Buddy, Elf
  

Quotes About The Spirit Of Christmas

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

• "Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand." ―Dr. Suess

• "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 more time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."—Thomas S. Monson

• "This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." —Taylor Caldwell

• "The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be." —Max Lucado

• “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young

• “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” —Ann Garnett Schultz

• “Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” —Dale Evans

• “Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!” —Dr. Seuss

• "To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." —Calvin Coolidge

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

• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." —Roy L. Smith

• "The true Christmas spirit is putting others' happiness before our own, and finding you've never known such happiness." —Toni Sorenson

• "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." —Mother Theresa

• "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." —W. T. Ellis

• “Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry-making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” —J. C. Penney

• “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal and that every path may lead to peace.” —Agnes M. Pharo

• “Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season to fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.” —Julie Hebert

• "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." —Will Ferrell, Elf

• “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas ... perhaps ... means a little bit more!” —Dr. Suess, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Christmas Quotes About Going Home

• "No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas." —Dolly Parton

• "At Christmas, all roads lead home." —Marjorie Holmes

• "Christmas is a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." —Freya Stark

• "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 is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united." —Norman Vincent Peale

• “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

• “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” —Peg Bracken

• “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” —Marjorie Holmes

• “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” —Burton Hills

• "´Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. ´ said Pooh. ´That´s my favorite kind. ´ said Piglet." —A. A. Milne
  

Christmas Quotes About Childhood And Nostalgia

• "The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood" —Richard Paul Evans

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

• "Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence." —Joan Mills

• "Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts." —Lenora Mattingly Weber

• "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

• "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

• “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” —Deborah Whipp

• "Christmas is a time when you get homesick— even when you're home." —Carol Nelson

• "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year." —Thomas Tusser

• "Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago." —Tom Baker

• “Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” —Norman Vincent Peale

• “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. Rundel

• “At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.” —Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
  

• "May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve." —Anonymous

• "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

Religious Christmas Quotes

• "Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality." – Billy Graham

• "Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas." —Pope John XXIII

• "It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."—Saint Teresa of Calcutta

• "The story of Christmas is the story of God's relentless love for us." —Max Lucado

• "You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift." —John R. Rice

• "Christmas is a gift of love wrapped in human flesh and tied securely with the strong promises of God. It is more than words can tell, for it is a matter for the heart to receive, believe and understand." —Frank McKibben

• "The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when He gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son." —Robert Flatt

• “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.” – David Jeremiah

• "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it." —Pope Francis

• "Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both." —Phillips Brooks

• “Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.” —Lucinda Franks

• “Bless us, Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.” —Helen Steiner Rice

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