Missing Family For Christmas Quotes

Oh Come All Ye Faithful "Occum" Claus stood a head taller than most of the other men at the party. Like most of his crazy family, he wore a Santa suit, only the coat of his outfit was missing, exposing suspenders and a sleeveless white tank top. The man was heavily muscled and looked angry; a mixture of holiday cheer and a Navy SEAL having a really bad day. He was the picture that went along with the headline "Christmas Nightmare" or "Crazed Santa Attacks Orphans with Fire Ax. ~ Elizabeth Gannon

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. ~ Samantha Isler

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve. ~ Blake Shelton

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas. ~ Billy Graham

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. ~ Malaika Arora Khan

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas. ~ Jenna Morasca

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas. ~ Scotty McCreery

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. ~ Winston Churchill

The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas. Speak Christmas. Reflect Christmas. Listen and feel Christmas
Christ doesn't care how you write Christmas; he cares how you live Christmas all year long. ~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Eating a huge home cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after each Christmas Day was done. There were empty dishes, and torn up wrapping paper on the ground. Monty was passed out on the couch stuffed with food. Evan would close his eyes and hear the day. He could feel the memories that were just made. ~ David Rangel

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

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. ~ Alain Ducasse

Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little. ~ Malaika Arora Khan

It's hard when you're missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs. ~ Lemony Snicket

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive. ~ Cameron Mathison

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner. ~ Gigi Hadid

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing. ~ George Kotsiopoulos

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing! ~ Doug Davidson

They stopped right in front of a grandfather tree with a deep knothole between two arm-like branches. The kids glanced at each other, but did not speak a word. ~ James Barbato

A sweet friend of my Hannah's said that Christmas only makes her sad. "It's just for happy families it makes everyone else miserable."
But there is a secret truth about family. Eventually you get to pick a family for yourself m. And thanks to the sticky, sweet, funny, loud, rambunctious people I chose, Christmas is my favorite time of the year. ~ Ellen Stimson

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ. ~ David Jeremiah

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. ~ Caroline Kennedy

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised. ~ Peter Capaldi

If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas. ~ Nikki Reed

Let the essence of Christmas blossom within - as the countdown to Christmas begins. ~ Eleesha

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing. ~ Stan Smith

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time. ~ Brody Jenner

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity. ~ Jan Hus

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents. ~ Danny Meyer

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. ~ Robert Godden

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me. ~ Brendan Coyle

Christmas is filled with joy and laughter, but love is the foundation that inspires it all. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market. ~ Francesca Lia Block

Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year! ~ Washington Irving

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. ~ Ellen Hopkins

Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. ~ Kristina McMorris

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family. ~ Julie Roberts

Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen. ~ Steve Burt

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. ~ Robert Teeter

Amidst such Soulful freedom, Christmas is never hindered - but, freely embraced. ~ Eleesha

This Christmas may you courageously venture - toward each new and unfolding horizon. ~ Eleesha

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. ~ Edward Rowland Sill

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music. ~ Tom Sims

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

Allow Christmas day to blossom in the bosom of your own inner joy & happiness. ~ Eleesha

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. ~ Veronica Roth

Let each Soulful insight, encourage you to - joyfully partake of Christmas in your own way. ~ Eleesha

Christmas, just like life itself - will become all that you choose or want it, to be. ~ Eleesha

Don't only wait until Christmas to love, love at all times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The family is the key of Christmas. ~ Scott Hahn

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. ~ Christina Applegate

The day you stop getting excited about Christmas is the day you become officially old. ~ Stewart Stafford

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. ~ Paul Scherrer

The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade. ~ Eleesha

I lost everything in the post-natal depression. ~ Erma Bombeck

Celebrate the life you have been gifted thus far, supporting the arrival of Christmas day. ~ Eleesha

As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate - not just within your heart & mind, but Soul. ~ Eleesha

Trust all you wish to achieve, in the aftermath of Christmas will harmoniously begin to unfold. ~ Eleesha

Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve. ~ Eleesha

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Honor the freedom to celebrate Christmas, not alone - but, in the company of all those you love, too. ~ Eleesha

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. ~ Richard Schiff

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. ~ Ralph Blane

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards. ~ Isabella Rossellini

One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun. ~ Sabrina Bryan

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. ~ Joel Osteen

Christmas, so joyfully celebrated within our hearts and within the hearts of countless others. ~ Eleesha

As you embrace Christmas, you embrace the magnitude of your life's journey & purpose. ~ Eleesha

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips. ~ Macaulay Culkin

On the day after Christmas, some store or another will always take out and ad saying there are only 364 shopping days to Christmas. No one is amused. ~ Gerard Del Re

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Merry christmas to those who celebrate it...forgive your enemy, tolerance to your opponents, generosity to your friends, LOVE to your family, be good example to the kids and respect to yourself..is the best gift during this holy day...may you have the most joyful year!!! (Ejump,2016) ~ Ejump - 2016

I love being here, Evelyn, don't think that I don't. Yes, I do miss being in New York, but being with a great family for Christmas is the best thing any guy could get. It's been the best year I've had for a quite a long time. ~ R.A. Rooney

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing. ~ John Cleese

It's funny to think that Christmas - a time known for its joyful togetherness - can be the loneliest time of the year for some. ~ Giovanna Fletcher

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas. ~ Lori Copeland

Whether you are with those you love or alone, you are contributing to Christmas, in your own way. ~ Eleesha

What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul. ~ Eleesha

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance. ~ Matisyahu

The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

CHRISTMAS EVE: There's a fire blazing in the fireplace, food enough for five thousand, and a new TV as big as Wyoming tuned to a football game no one cares about. ~ Richard Powers

Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds. ~ Sophie Kinsella

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter. ~ Ian Astbury

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it. ~ Bill Vaughan

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back. ~ Tim Roth

Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with "It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus ~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Christmas is Christ love for mankind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. ~ Studs Terkel

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ~ J.K. Rowling

If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don't worry about it. I'm not really anxious about it. One can keep Christmas as a Christian even in prison - more easily than family occasions, anyhow. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch. ~ Malaika Arora Khan

It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Tell the truth and its enemies will scatter like roaches.
Inventory of a Lost Childhood
1. Lion King's Simba missing an eye
2. Conan the Barbarian missing a sword
3. Transformer missing an arm/wing/machine gun
4. Scooby-Doo missing a head
5. Star Wars' R2-D2 missing a gripping tool
6. Etch-a-Sketch missing a knob
7. Powell Peralta skateboard missing a wheel
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle missing a nunchuk
9. Atari console missing a joystick
10. G.I. Joe missing in action ~ Beryl Dov

I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~ Eric Sevareid

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ Helen Keller

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable. ~ Ralph Washington Sockman

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. ~ Clint Black