• "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell Tweet
• "It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends." - Christopher Hitchens Tweet
• "The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq." - Rick Springfield Tweet
• "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase Tweet
• "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols." - Tori Amos Tweet
• "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." - Richard Brautigan Tweet
• "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck Tweet
• "Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh." - Steven Tyler Tweet
• "The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'" - Jensen Ackles Tweet
• "Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet