Christmas Eve. and Christmas Day represent a special time of year that some consider a religious celebration, while others see the holiday as an opportunity to spending time with friends and family.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions, most celebrations will be smaller and very different this year. However, it doesn’t mean the holiday should be considered just another day.
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Charles Dickens
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” — W.T. Ellis
“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. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.” — Bill Murray in "Scrooged."
“Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.” — Gregg Easterbrook
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hillis
“There was the holy hush in the gray twilight that comes only on Christmas Eve. There were the big flakes of snow that fell as they never fall except on Christmas Eve.” — John Fox Jr.
“According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.” — Grazia Deledda
“The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: ‘Some assembly required.’” — John Leo
“There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.” — Bill McKibben
“What Eve is like the Christmas Eve?... In any land. A day so grand— So pure as Christmas Day.” — Louis Charles
“Although sometimes things past seem done and gone. On Christmas Eve, all Christmases are one.” — Burt Porter
“Christmas Eve has come at last, That day of all most glad— The angels sing with joy and praise, Christmas Eve has come at last— That day of all most blest.” — Amy Campbell
“Christmas Eve. The final crescendo in the grand approach to Christmas. In our house, no other day is like it. The excitement grows as the day goes on, passing like a virus from children to the adults and back again.” — J.H. Alexander
“Christmas Eve ought to be a very joyful evening to us in all its associations, in all the truths which it naturally brings to the soul... A man’s soul is to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up and saw them full of angels as well as stars.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” — Calvin Coolidge
“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.” — Phyllis Diller
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” — Garrison Keillor
“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
Pictured: People walk near Christmas decorations on Dec. 20, 2018, in central Moscow.Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
