An Old-Fashioned Christmas
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—WHITLEY STRIEBER
EVER WORRY about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
—LARRY WILDE
APPY, HAPPY Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
—CHARLES DICKENS
HILDHOOD CONDITIONS us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving’s Bracebridge Hall.
—COLIN WILSON
HERE IS nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.
—ERMA BOMBECK
OR CHILDREN, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
—ERIC SEVAREID
HATEVER ELSE be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
—GRACE NOLL CROWELL