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Monday 24 December 2012

HADDOM SUNDBLOM AND SOME BEAUTIFUL QUOTES FOR CHRISTMAS


 


Since Christmas is not all about giving and receiving presents, I just wanted to post this entry about the meaning of Christmas through these beautiful quotes for Christmas with some illustrations by the artist Haddon Sundblom (1899-1976), best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for the Coca-Cola Company.

W. T. Ellis
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.


Richard Roberts
It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.

W. J. Cameron
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year, and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.


Ray Stannard Baker
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays, let them overtake me unexpectedly, waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!

Frank McKibben
This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols. But the humble heart that receives a new the wondrous gift, the Christ.


Charles Dickens
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday, the longer, the better, from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.


Robert Lynd
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

Joan Winmill Brown
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given, when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.


Charles Dickens
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

Carol Nelson
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.


Augusta E. Rundel
Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance, a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.


HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU, 
VISITORS, FOLLOWERS, FRIENDS AND READERS ALL 
AND ALL THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR!





10 comments:

  1. Celebration of Christmas bring you much joy and fulfillment of all wishes with your loved ones!

    Florena

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    1. Thanks Florena, my very best wishes for you in Christmas and the New Year too!

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  2. What delightful images and quotes of Chrismas! Wishing you a wonderful year ahead, Nieves :)

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    1. Thanks very much Laura, Happy New Year for you and your family!

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  3. All this had to be all year, there is always a time to do a tender and sweet things.
    People have more longevity, when they smile, be more optimistic in life always takes much better, because life is responsible for bringing us very bad times.

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    1. You are quite right MADRILEÑA, all the year should be like in Christmas time, not only for two weeks. Hugs and kisses,

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  4. Hola Nieves, preciosa esta entrada, pero sobre todo las estampas que tienen ese tono a añejo, que mi tanto me gusta.
    Un beso.

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    1. Gracias Manuel, me alegro mucho de que te gustara la entrada, la verdad es que resultan encantadoras y entrañables estas ilustraciones navideñas ¿verdad? Creo que aunque sean de otra época nos transmiten mucha calidez y felicidad. Otro beso para ti,

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    1. Thanks for leaving such beautiful Christmas quotes, which suits perfectly my post. Best regards,

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