Seasonal Decorations Quotes

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.

It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

My mom's really into Christmas ornaments and our tree's lavish and beautiful.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it.

As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.

We're the house that's playing Christmas music by November 1.

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.