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

- Carol Nelson

"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines

"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

- Richard Paul Evans

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines