Get Ready for a Magical Month Ahead With These Festive December Quotes
December sure knows how to make a grand entrance! The month practically screams "I've arrived!" with its freezing temperatures and snowy weather that pretty much begs you to break out the warmest winter coats. Not to mention, we already knew winter was here by the alarming amount of Christmas lights and holiday decorations that popped up right after Thanksgiving. Yeah... it's a chilly, busy, festive, and wonderful month all at once—best described by these very-telling December quotes!
The list you're about to dive into has a bit of everything. There's a lot that goes on in December, after all! There are winter quotes that really highlight the chilly forecast. Terri Guillemets knew what she was talking about when she said: “Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” There are also a few Christmas quotes and holiday quotes that take into account the busyness of the season, like this one from Sarah Kay: “It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” Of course, December is more than just a month for gift-giving, it's also a great time to reflect on the year before it comes to an end. We loved this saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.”
Continue reading for more of these December quotes!
Fennel Hudson
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
Neil Sedaka
“December, you’re the present beneath my Christmas tree.”
Rod McKuen
“Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”
Sarah Kay
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
Terri Guillemets
“Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
Kiran Bantawa
“A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.”
Rizki De
“Love has different shape, like this falling snow in winter.”
Oliver Herford
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing.”
John Boswell
“Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.”
Lisa Kleypas
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
Vivian Swift
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
H. S. Jacobs
“Winter is nature’s sleep.”
Alexander Pope
“In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.”
Amy Adams
“I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.”
Emily Brontë
“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“December is a month of invitation to forget ourselves in the service of others.”
Flora Thompson
“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.”
Charles Dickens
“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Oprah Winfrey
“December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.”
Taylor Swift
“I go back to December all the time.”
Michael Josephson
“December is a month of enormous potential.”
Merle Haggard
“If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be alright I know.”
Tom Allen
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
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