104 Christmas Quotes For Kids

Nidhi Sahai
Mar 13, 2023 By Nidhi Sahai
Originally Published on Feb 24, 2023
Edited by Spandana Kantam
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Christmas quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Age: 3-18
Read time: 10.8 Min

Christmas is a time to spread love through words, warm sentiments, and tangible gifts.

More significantly, reading a blessed Christmas card with their parents' love is what every child looks for on the morning of Christmas, so it's crucial to pick the appropriate words to show them how much we care.

Singing jingle bells in the true spirit, enjoying Christmas carols, and candy canes, putting up the Christmas lights, decorating the Christmas tree for the Christmas wish with a happy family, and making Christmas cards for dear Santa are the few remarkable things that a child enjoys every year to have a joyous Christmas in the holiday season. Christmas is like a season for kids that is full of surprises and treats. Take your pick from the Christmas quotes for kids below and spread the Christmas cheer!

Cute Christmas Quotes For Kids

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." -Ralph Sockman

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

"May Santa and his elves bring you bundles of joy and the Yuletide cheer!"

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." -Mary Ellen Chase

"Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries." -George W.Truett

"Children make your Christmas Merry." -Erma Bombeck

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on Earth, good-will to men!" -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"At Christmas, all roads lead home." -Marjorie Holmes

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." -Norman Vincent Peale

"We've had bad luck with our kids on this Christmas — they've all grown up." -Christoph Morley

"A Christmas gambol oft could cheer

The poor man's heart through half the year." -Walter Scott

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

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

"Christmas is sight, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child." -William Saroyan

"If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?" -Don Meredith

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." -Will Ferrell, 'Buddy The Elf'

"Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart." -Washington Irving

"Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks." -Unknown

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white.'" -Bing Crosby

"May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas eve." -Unknown

"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

"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from the store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!" -Dr. Seuss, 'The Grinch'

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." -Benjamin Franklin

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." -Larry Wilde

"Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." -B.C. Forbes

"It's not what's under the Christmas tree that matters, it's who is around it." -Unknown

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." -Garrison Keillor

"Christmas Prayer: Guardian angel pure and bright, please lead Santa here tonight." -Unknown

"Three Wise Women would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, bought practical gifts, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, and there would be peace on earth!" -Unknown

"It's Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." -W. T. Ellis

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

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." -Margaret Thatcher

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." -Oren Arnold

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

"Christmas Eve, a perfect night to express affection for your family, to forgive those who failed you, and to forget past mistakes." -Unkown

"Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — You feel it. You know it. You believe it." -Kevin Alan Milne

"May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, the gladness of Christmas give you hope, the warmth of Christmas grant you love." -Unknown

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

"Christmas isn't about candy canes or lights all aglow, it's the hearts that we touch, and the care that we show." -Unknown

"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

"Love came down at Christmas,

Love all lovely, Love Divine,

Love was born at Christmas,

Star and Angels gave the sign." -Christina Rossetti, 'Love Came Down At Christmas'

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

"Even as an adult, I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age." -Carrie Latet

Short Christmas Quotes For Kids

"We're happy tonight \ Walkin' in a winter wonderland" –Michael Bublé, 'Winter Wonderland'

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day." -Helen Steiner Rice

"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand." -Dr. Seuss

"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." -Edna Ferber

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know." -Irving Berlin

"Love the giver more than the gift." -Brigham Young

"Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime." -Charles Dickens

"I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story." -Fred Rogers

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings." -Zuzu Bailey, 'It's A Wonderful Life'

"Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy." -Tupac Shakur

"May your days be merry and bright." -Unknown

"Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed." -Ann Garnett Schultz

Funny Christmas Quotes For Kids

"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." -Erma Bombeck

"There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus." -Bob Phillips

"For it's good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas." -Charles Dickens

"At Christmas a man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; he is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here." -Edgar A Guest

"I wish that dear old Santa

would take me for a ride;

I'd like to drive his reindeer

and sit by Santa's side." -Ovie Pedige Tanner, 'A Ride With Santa'

"People really act weird at Christmas time! What other time of year do you sit in front of a dead tree in the living room and eat nuts and sweets out of your socks?" -Unknown

"He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree." -Roy L Smith

"More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good." -Unknown

"You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger." -Robert Paul

"Christmas is always a problem to the man who has to convince his kids that there is a Santa Claus, and his wife that there isn't."-Unknown

"Of course Santa is dead, you force a guy to eat a billion cookies in one night, what do you think is going to happen?" -Jimmy Kimmel

"Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard." -Andy Borowitz

"Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit people only once a year." -Victor Borge

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included." -Bernard Manning

"No doubt about it, Santa is old fashioned. He is also an individualist. He goes his own way. He doesn't obey airport tower controllers or customs officials." -Unknown

"Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet." -Unknown

"Just look at Christmas morning pictures if you want to see truly what a person looks like first thing in the morning." -Unknown

"One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." -Albus Dumbledore, 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone', JK Rowling

"Ho, ho, ho - Cherry nose - Cap on head - Suit that's red - Special night - Beard that's white - Must be Santa" -Bob Dylan

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it white." -Bing Crosby

"The older I get, the fewer useless gifts I get. The fewer I get, the less I have to wrap to re-gift for next Christmas."

"I am not sure Christmas is good for my health. After all the Christmas dinners and goodies, I end up looking like Santa Claus, with my bowl full of jelly." -Unknown

"You can just hear Santa saying Ho, Ho, Ho, when you receive your credit card statement in January." -Kate Summers

"The older I get, the younger Santa Claus looks!" -Unknown

"I never get to see Santa Claus come down the chimney because I always get too tired and fall asleep from eating all his cookies while waiting for him." -Unknown

"All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." -Donald Yetter Gardner

"Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush, rather than a last-minute rush." -Unknown

"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

"Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends." -Larry Wilde

Inspirational Christmas Quotes For Kids

"The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much." -Henry David Thoreau

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." -Jesse Jackson

"A joy that is shared is a joy made double." -John Roy

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." -Charles M. Schulz

"Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." -Stephen Jones

"Christmas and the holidays is the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted." -Gisele Bundchen

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is." -Eric Sevareid

"It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving." -Mother Theresa

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection." -Winston Churchill

"The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young." -Phillips Brooks

"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, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." -Dale Evans Rogers

"Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is, in reality, great, if it is given with affection." -Pindar

"Even before Christmas has said Hello, it's saying 'Buy Buy.'" -Robert Paul

"The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it." -Bill Vaughan

"One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales." -Grace Kriley

"The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving." -J. C. Penney

"Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind." -Helen Steiner Rice

 

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Written by Nidhi Sahai

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication

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Nidhi SahaiBachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication

Dedicated and experienced, Nidhi is a professional content writer with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality work. She has contributed her expertise to esteemed organizations, including Network 18 Media and Investment Ltd. Driven by her insatiable curiosity and love for journalism and mass communication, Nidhi pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, graduating with distinction in 2021. During her college years, she discovered her passion for Video Journalism, showcasing her skills as a videographer for her institution. Nidhi's commitment to making a positive impact extends beyond her professional pursuits. Actively engaging in volunteer work, she has contributed to various events and initiatives throughout her academic career.

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