Rachel Cohn
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.”
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2Isaiah 9:6
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images3Charlotte Carpenter
DNY59//Getty Images“Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.”
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4Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images"It’s fruitcake weather!"
5The Polar Express
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”
6Laura Ingalls Wilder
DNY59//Getty Images“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
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7Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
8Gladys Bagg Taber
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made — fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.”
9Harlan Miller
DNY59//Getty Images“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
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10John J. Geddes
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”
11Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”
12Carrie Underwood
DNY59//Getty Images“For me growing up, Christmas was always just comforting. We always had the same stockings and the same tree and the same decorations, and we would always decorate the weekend right after Thanksgiving. You know, flip the Christmas switch.”
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13Larry Wilde
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
14Clement Clarke Moore, "The Night Before Christmas"
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blixen!”
15Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street
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16Sherryl Woods, An O’Brien Family Christmas
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you.”
17Maya Angelou, "Amazing Peace"
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“Christmas enters, streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope and singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air.”
18Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
DNY59//Getty Images“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”
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19Sigrid Undset
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva//Getty Images“When we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them.”
20Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box
Yulia Naumenko//Getty Images“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
Leah Hall is currently a digital producer and writer for Country Living. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama.
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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