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Quotes of the Day for 24 December 2004 - Christmas Eve

When I was growing up, Christmas Eve was a public day. It was a holiday, because nobody was really working. But it was a business day, because everybody was open. But if you were a regular, you could go in the back room and help yourself to a drink and have a bit of conversation. Then home to a big dinner with the good silver, which had to be washed and dried before we could start on the presents. Then my dad would read the Saint Luke's account of the first Christmas, we opened our gifts, and went off to church at 11:00 pm. The first day of Christmas starts at sundown today, I hope your's is everything you need it to be.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
     - Bess Streeter Aldrich, 1881 - 1954

Once upon a time - of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
     - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

A perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is ... a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.
     - Katherine Whitehorn

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

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... But there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
     - May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight.
     - Swedish Carol

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