Carols Quotes

• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
  Soon the bells will start,
  And the thing that will make them ring
  Is the carol that you sing
  Right within your heart.

  Meredith Willson

  Christmas, Heart, Looks

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• I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Prayer, Heart, Wings

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Christmas, Dedication, Meditation

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• Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

  Fanny Kemble

  Tree, Rings, Gladness

  Frances Anne Kemble, “Lament Of A Mocking-Bird”

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Past

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Christmas, Xmas, Memories

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

  Edward Fitzgerald

  Time, Sleep, Sun

  Edward FitzGerald (1889). “Letters and Literary Remains: The mighty magician. Such stuff as dreams are made of. The downfall and death of King Oedipus. Agamemnon, Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám. Saláman and Absal. Bredfield hall. Chronomoros. Virgil's garden. Translation from Petrarch. P”

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• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Happy Holidays, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Shepherds, Babe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.608

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• A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

  Leonard Maltin

  Christmas, Stories, Fool Proof

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• When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

  Sarah Silverman

  Want, Profile, Stills

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

  John Cusack

  Past, People, Ghost

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• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Christmas, Song, Singing

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• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  Florence Henderson

  Thinking, Fans, Answers

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• It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Fellow Man, Spirit

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.18

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• I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Scrooge, Three

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

  Tracey Ullman

  Lilies, Late

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• Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

  Garry Shandling

  Television, Firsts, Comedy

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• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  Pete Waterman

  Reality, Discovery, Different

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• If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

  Charles Dickens

  Population, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

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• All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Want, Bills

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