Quotes About Christmas Trees
Celebrating a decorative holiday tradition
Sometimes they’re a beautiful tribute to the holidays. Sometimes they’re a place to display presents for friends and family. Other times, they’re a jungle gym for a mischievous cat. Whatever the case, we love Christmas trees and the cheer they bring to the holidays and these quotes represent why.
1. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.” -Nora Roberts
2. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” -Larry Wilde 3. “If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.” -Ernest Hemingway
4. “The smell of pine needles, spruce, and the smell of a Christmas tree — those to me, are the scents of the holidays.” -Blake Lively 5. “Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” -Tom Baker
6. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” -Burton Hillis
7. “The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There’s a kind of glory to them when they’re all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.” -Andy Rooney
8. “It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we’d go out ‘tree hunting.’ That’s what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word ‘trespassing.’” -Jenny Han
9. “Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.” -T.S. Eliot
10. “Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.” -Orson Welles
11. “I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it’s a healthy outlet for them. If they weren’t covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they’d be doing something that was really, really creepy.” -Lewis Black
12. “Our task is to stand tall in God’s love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving to all who come our way. You, me, and the Christmas tree. Picked, purchased, and pruned.” -Max Lucado
13. “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” -Dan Florence
14. “The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.” -James Irwin 15. “The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.” -Tess Gerritsen
16. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” -Norman Vincent Peale
17. “Yes, a Christmas tree is something we cannot do without. Because a tree with all the trimmings….Up the mountain, follow me! I’ll find one soon, you’ll see! You’ll see, I’ll find the perfect Christmas tree!” -Stan Berenstain
18. “The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.” -Andy Rooney
19. “Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that’s set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God’s gift of the Christ child.” -Amy Grant 20. “Tree decorating with cats. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, your Ornaments are history!” -Courtney VanSickle
21. “I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree.” -Thomas Menino
22. “I may be biased, but even without all of these fancy decorations, Christmas trees are special. Cause they remind us this is the season, that we should all love one another.” -John Loy
23. “The Christmas trees are brought from Vermont by monosyllabic men in warm clothes; they seem alien, closer to the earth, silently contemptuous, like gypsies. They bring in their trees and stand them up on the pavements, so that swaths of Broadway are suddenly transformed into dark, pine-scented avenues.” -Deborah Meyler
24. “When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that’s attracted to shiny things. They’ll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.” -Leslie Jordan 25. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” -Roy L. Smith
26. “Christmas trees make us feel happy and uplifted.” -Jacqueline Farmer
27. “Those are for the Christmas tree. Everyone is wishing you a Merry Christmas. Decorating, celebrating, Merry Christmas. Happy Christmas.” -Eun-sook Kim
28. “Glittering tinsel, lights, glass balls, and candy canes dangle from pine trees.” -Richelle E. Goodrich
29. “I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I’m one of those people.” -Rachel Boston 30. “Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.” -Greg Fitzsimmons
31. “Christmas trees remind us of better times yet to come.” -James Hewitt
32. “Don’t you love Christmas? Anything goes wrong in the world, Christmas makes it go away. Decorations, carols, tree.” -David E. Kelley
33. “There are angels on the tree?” “Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don’t we?” -Heather Graham
34. “I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.” -John Prine 35. “Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.” -Bill Bryson
36. “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” -Maya Angelou
37. “Promise you will be Nobody else’s little Christmas tree I’ll make you sparkle, just you wait and see My little Christmas tree.” -Mickey Rooney
38. “I don’t know if that’s a year’s bad luck, or if that’s how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree — that can’t be a good thing, karma-wise.” -Adrian McKinty 39. “I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.” -Ray Bradbury
40. “The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect.” -Charles N. Barnard
41. “Oh, I’m the happiest Christmas tree Christmas day, wait and see I’ll be laughing happily.” -Cathy Lynn
42. “After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten.” -Molly O’Keefe 43. “A Christmas tree, the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.” -Jay Leno
44. “They’ve got plastic Christmas trees now. They’re hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.” -Milton Berle
45. “Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin, inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.” -John Geddes
46. “I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.” -Sondra Locke 47. “Christmas trees don’t grow on trees; they need rainbows, lumberjacks, and Leprechauns on unicorns playing jock jams on glockenspiels.” -Ryan Ross
48. “What’s a Christmas tree without tinsel and pretty silver and gold decorations? Can’t really call it a Christmas tree now, can you? And think of all the fun and joy that would be lost on Christmas morning, if all the young folks didn’t get to see that sparkling, happy tree.” -Romeo Muller
49. “Everybody around the world Wherever you may be Don’t forget the love Under the Christmas tree.” -Albert Hammond
50. “Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.” -Matt Barr
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