Christmas is a time to slow down, reflect, recharge and reconnect with what matters the most to us.
It’s a time when families all over the world gather in the warmth and keep the cold and darkness of winter at bay. Sharing laughter, delicious meals and stories and memories.
And to help you make this Christmas a joyful one I’d like to share 101 of the most heartwarming, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes for family.
I hope you’ll find something here to make this year’s holiday an extra special and happy one for yourself and your family.
Heartwarming Christmas Quotes and Wishes for Family
“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
“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas
“Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
– Augusta E. Rundel
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
– Andy Rooney
“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
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills
“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family.”
– Roberta Flack
“At Christmas, families come together like branches on a tree.”
– Karen Kostyla
“Christmas is a time when families unite, love multiplies and magic fills the air.”
– Caroline Kennedy
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
– Wanda Hope Carter
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes
“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
“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
– Charlie Brown (from the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas)
“Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark
“From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.”
– Emily Matthews
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.”
– Bob Hope
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson
“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”
– Deborah Whipp
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
– Clarence (from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life)
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith
“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”
– Tom Baker
“Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday, said Pooh. That’s my favorite kind, said Piglet.”
– A. A. Milne
Inspirational Christmas Quotes and Sayings for Family
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa
“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 more time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”
– Toni Sorenson
“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us.”
– Donald E. Westlake
“Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.”
– David Cameron
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
– Ruth Carter Stapleton
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro
“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis
“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks
“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 in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
– W.C. Jones
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.”
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.”
– Faith Hill
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
– Janice Maeditere
“Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!”
– Dr. Seuss
“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
– W. T. Ellis
“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans
Funny Christmas Quotes for Family and Loved Ones
“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence
“It’s that special time of year when your whole family gathers together in one place to look at their cellphones.”
– Jimmy Kimmel
“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”
– Dr. Seuss
“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”
– Dave Barry
“I hate the radio this time of year because they play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.”
– Bridger Winegar
“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul
“Adults can take a simple holiday for children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.”
– Erma Bombeck
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor
“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.”
– Henny Youngman
“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
– Bob Phillips
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.”
– Dave Barry
“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Friends are the family you choose, especially when they help you hide the evidence of Christmas shopping.”
– Sally Thorne
Short Christmas Quotes for Family and Your Letterboard
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”
– Taylor Caldwell
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith
“Christmas is a tonic for our souls.”
– B.C. Forbes
“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies
“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”
– Gladys Taber
“The best Christmas gift is to realize how much you already have.”
– Marie Kondo
“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”
– Ann Garnett Schultz
“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
– Charlotte Carpenter
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller
“No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas.”
– Dolly Parton
Cute Christmas Quotes for Family and a Happy Holiday
“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
“Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
– Joan Mills
“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
– Bob Hope
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
– Thomas Tusser
“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
“The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.”
– Max Lucado
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Christmas is a time to take stock of the good things in life.”
– Reese Witherspoon
“Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season to fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
– Julie Hebert
“The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller
“We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.”
– Maya Angelou
“May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”
– Washington Irving
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Christmas is a bridge of hope that connects yesterday’s memories with tomorrow’s dreams.”
– Mary Engelbreit
“May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill.”
– Martha Stewart
Want more uplifting and positive inspiration for your holidays? Then have a look at these short Christmas quotes, this one with inspirational Christmas quotes and also this post that’s filled with Christmas quotes for cards and your letterboard.