Christmas Time

Famous quotes containing the words christmas time, christmas and/or time:

    “Please to put a nickel,
    Please to put a dime.
    How petitions trickle
    In at Christmas time!”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    “Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, ‘Is it what he needs or what he wants?’ It isn’t always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.”
    —Haim Ginott (20th century)

    “All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed, but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)