The holidays are more than just a matter of buying presents, indulging in cookies, and taking a much-needed break from work and school; they are for spending time with family, friends, and neighbors. Shed the stresses of the holiday season and focus on what really matters with these 21 holiday quotes, and bring joy and warmth to your heart.

21 Holiday Quotes about Family

1. Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch. – Evelyn Glennie

2. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. – Richard Bach

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

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

5. I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. – Amy Adams

6. 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

7. Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox

8. A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – George Bernard Shaw

9. Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. – Charles M. Schulz

10. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie

11. This time of year means being kind
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers
we may pass along the street. – Betty Black

12. And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. – Dr. Seuss

13. For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. – W. J. Tucker

14. Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united. – Norman Vincent Peale

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

16. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. – Peg Bracken

17. I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness. – Carrie Fisher

18. Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. – Anonymous

19. Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words. – Harlan Miller

20. Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. – Pope John XXIII

21. Christmas, my child, is love in action. – Dale Evans

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The following 20 Christmas quotes are just what you need to get into the holiday cheer. From celebrities to poets to authors to fictional characters, these characters offer a wide range of sentiment associated with Christmas. If you aren’t in the Christmas spirit yet, this list will surely help you get there.

20 Christmas Quotes

1. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens
2. Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of this day – the birth of Santa? – Bart Simpson
3. Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. – Larry Wilde
4. At Christmas, all roads lead home. – Marjorie Holmes
5. Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
6. Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm 
7. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. – Harlan Miller
8. Christmas is the day that holds all time together. – Alexander Smith
9. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? – Bob Hope
10. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. – Taylor Caldwell
11. I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. – Shirley Temple
12. Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups 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
13. Nothing says holidays like a cheese log. – Ellen DeGeneres
14. It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it. – Charlie Brown
15. He who has not Christmas in his heart will ever find it under a tree. – Roy L. Smith
16. Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. – Johnny Carson
17. It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. – Caroline Kennedy
18. There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right? – Conan O’Brien
19. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin. – Jay Leno
20. Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store. – Dr. Seuss

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