50 Inspirational Christmas Quotes to Cherish with Family

"The best gift around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."

- Burton Hills

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick— even when you're home."

- Carol Nelson

"Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."

- Lenora Mattingly Weber

"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."

- Joan Mills

"Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

- Buddy the Elf

"Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas."

- Dale Evans

"Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us."

- David Cameron

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."

- J.L.W. Brooks

"Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold."

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."

- Thomas S. Monson

"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas."

- Dolly Parton

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall and the genial flame of charity in the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry-making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving."

- J. C. Penney

"Christmas is a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

- Freya Stark

"The true Christmas spirit is putting others' happiness before our own, and finding you've never known such happiness."

- Toni Sorenson

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."

- Alexander Smith

"In the eyes of children, we find the joy of Christmas. In their hearts, we find its meaning."

- Leland Dirks

"Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together."

- Rosie Thomas

"When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

"Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe."

- Chris van Allsburg

"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

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

- Burton Hills

"Christmas is a together sort of holiday."

- Pooh

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."

- Peg Bracken

"Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings, exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Christmas is a gift of love wrapped in human flesh and tied securely with the strong promises of God. It is more than words can tell, for it is a matter for the heart to receive, believe and understand."

- Frank McKibben

"I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams."

- Bing Crosby

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality."

- Washington Irving

"One of the joys of living a long life is watching one's children, then grandchildren, then great-grandchildren, help decorate the Christmas tree."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Be it ever so heinous, there’s no place like home."

- How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2001)

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The spirit of the season never has to end as long as you keep your loved ones near, and the holiday wish in your heart."

- Jiminy Cricket

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it. You feel it. You know it. You remember it."

- Kevin Alan Milne

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Christmas without family is like the worst day ever."

"Christmas presents are nice, but being with family is the best gift of all."

"My family's Christmas laughter fills my soul with love."

"Family at Christmas is like nothing else in life."

"My ideal Christmas Eve is sitting by the fireside with my family, sipping hot chocolate, gazing at the Christmas tree, and feeling the love."

"If I had but one Christmas wish, it would be to spend every day like today with family."

"Christmas is all about the family!"

"My favorite part of Christmas is family."

"I love my family, especially at Christmas."

"Christmas with my family is my happy place!"

"All I want for Christmas is to be with my family."

"There's nothing better than family and Christmas."

"Christmas is going home to celebrate with family."

"We travel from all over the world to be together as a family on Christmas day."

"My family lights up my life at Christmas."

"Being with family at Christmas means wonderful memories in the making."

"I wish Christmas Day with my family would never end."

"Each Christmas is better than the last because my family is together once more."

"My fondest childhood memories are my family gathered around the Christmas table."

"Being with family on Christmas is my safe space."

"Every Christmas, I wrap my family in love!"

"Christmas with my family is what makes it special."

"I wish my family could always be together the way we are on Christmas day."

"I love my family's Christmas celebrations."

"All year, I look forward to my family's Christmas celebration."

"Christmas adds to the warmth of family love."

"If I could bottle my family's love at Christmas, I'd open it every day to refill my soul with warmth and happiness."

"I count my Christmas blessings with my family's faces."

"Christmas means reconnecting with family."

"Family love grows warmer at Christmas."

"Christmas is a precious time for creating more family memories."

"Each Christmas, my heart swells bigger from family love."

"This Christmas, just remember, while we aren't blood relatives, we are family."

"You don't appreciate how much Christmas means with your family until you spend a Christmas without them."

"The older you get, the more family Christmas memories you have to relive in all their splendor."

"The house grows warmer when my family arrives on Christmas day."

"Christmas and family go together like soup and a sandwich-warm and fulfilling."

"My family is like having Christmas every day."

"Christmas memories with family sustain me until the next Christmas."

"We celebrate Christ's birthday as a family."

"Wherever I am on Christmas day, my family is in my heart."

"Never forget that family and Christmas go together."

"Christmas Eve is special when your family shares the magic."

"May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve."

"If you can't be with your family on Christmas, find someone else's family to share the love."

"My Christmas list is filled with family names I hold in my heart all year long."

"My family sings and rejoices at Christmas for the Christ child who was born."

"May your family’s love light up your Christmas season."

"In the arms of family, Christmas feels like magic."

"In our family, Christmas means the day Christ was born."

"Where there’s family, there’s Christmas cheer."

"Christmas is a time to cherish those who make your heart smile all year long."

"Christmas isn't about the gifts we find under the tree but about the love we share with those who mean the most."

- Unknown

"The best present is the presence of family this Christmas."

"Christmas is more magical when we're together."

- Unknown

"One of the greatest joys of the holiday season is the warmth of your embrace."

- Unknown

"Good friends are like Christmas lights; they brighten your life even on the darkest days."

- Unknown