Mi-ar fi plăcut să găsesc, pe internet, gânduri laice despre Crăciun scrise în româneşte. Poate că există, dar nu le-am găsit eu.
Vă propun, în consecinţă, citate despre Crăciun culese de pe
un sit american si de pe
un sit franţuzesc.The threat of Christmas hung in the air, visible already in the fretful look of passersby as they readied themselves for the meaningless but necessary rites of false jovialities and ill-considered gifts.
- Peter Dickinson
What is Christmas?
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
- Agnes M. Pharo
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
- Unknown
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
--Norman Vincent Peale
Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year's gifts.
- Unknown
Happy, 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
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.
- Henry Van Dyke
The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
- O. Henry
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
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
- Marjorie Holmes
Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
- Unknown
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
- W. C. Jones
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis
Whatever 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
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.
- Joan Winmill Brown
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice
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Noël est la seule fête où les enfants reçoivent des cadeaux sans être obligés de dire merci.
[Daniel Marchiolli]
Les parents du Père Noël auraient aussi souhaité que leur fils existe vraiment.
[Jean-Michel Serveaux]
Attendre le courrier comme on attend le Père Noël est un trait commun à tous les écrivains.
[Geneviève Brisac]
Celui qui a inventé la Noël, c'est un mec qui devait tenir un magasin.