80 Christmas Quotes to Impress Your Family

November 02, 2022

Finding Christmas quotes for your family to add to their cards takes less time than putting up the decorations these days.We have plenty of ideas for cards here at Boomf. It is customary to offer Christmas card quotes about family hope and love, even if you’d rather be seeing them off the premises with a few well-aimed snowballs.

Christmas Quotes about Family

Fortunately with family there are many more options for holiday greetings than for work colleagues or a child to their teacher. Humorous quotes about family life are often popular, as well as ideas from movies or television. Some people associate Disney or Charlie Brown with Christmas, for others it’s Die Hard or Gremlins, or classic movies such as White Christmas or It’s a Wonderful Life.

With Boomf you can personalise your Christmas card for family as well as your greeting, and there are any number of ways to do that. Maybe one or more of these ideas will fit your needs?

Christmas is often more about the younger members of the family, so this quote is appropriate if you have children or grandchildren around for the festive season: “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind,” said Mary Ellen Chase.
Alternatively you might prefer this line from Valentine Davies in "Miracle on 34th Street": “Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind.”
Musicians and singers are often good sources for quotes. Johnny Mathis has said “My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.”
If you have travelled for several hours to join family for Christmas, then Marjorie Holmes knows how you feel. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
For a multi-generational family Christmas, this quote could do the trick. Gladys Taber says that “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
You might have to be careful using this quote, as the speaker is quite a divisive figure. Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister, suggested that “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day to spend in the warm circle of family and friends.”
Meanwhile Winston Churchill reckoned that “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
If you have a houseful this year, you might find someone has wittily written the words of Washington Irving in your Christmas card “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”
If there's always food around from Halloween through November and December into January, then Malaika Arora Khan has your ideal quote: “Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.”
Here’s another anonymous quote, “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”

Christmas Quotes for Grandma and Grandpa

Whatever name you have for your grandparents, for many children, seeing them is special. If they live far away, or abroad, then Christmas may be one of the few times they can make the trip to be with the rest of the family. You can mark the season with an apt quote or saying and send a lovely Christmas card for grandparents that will make them chuckle at the time and again whenever they think of it afterwards.

“Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas,” said Steven Dodrill. Well it certainly brought you here this year, Grandma and Grandpa.
Catherine Pulsifer reckons that “When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.” Of course it’s going to be special. You’re here with us to celebrate it.
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve,” reminds grandparents to help their grandchildren out by looking for Santa and the reindeer. After all, although NORAD tracks him, it’s more fun if you can find him yourself.
Britain's long-lived monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, understood the value of a life lived for others after a reign of 70 years. If your grandparent is always helping others, then this quote is just right for them: “For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.”
How about this? “Christmas is a time to slow the pace, appreciate the love of family and friends, and express our gratefulness for every blessing bestowed upon us. May your Christmas be filled with goodwill.”
“I love how Christmas reminds us to pause and reflect on the important things around us like family, friends, and all the things money can’t buy.”
A grandparent with a sense of humour will appreciate this quote: “I think as you grow older your Christmas list gets shorter, because the things you want can’t be bought.”
Whoever said this knew families too. Grandparents will smile and agree wholeheartedly, no doubt. “I used to think being a kid on Christmas was the best thing ever. Turns out being a parent on Christmas is.”
Here’s a heartfelt thought for families to their older members. “Merry Christmas is beyond a simple greeting, it is a blessing to let someone know that you wish them and their family peace, happiness, and bountiful grace.”
Maybe your Grandma is a star baker? In which case, this saying is ideal for their card, “I can smell the freshly baked gingerbread cookies that grandma used to make us every Christmas. Even when I am miles apart from you this Christmas, the memories will keep me joyful.”

Christmas Sayings for Mom & Dad

Parents may well appreciate Bernard Manning’s thought: “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books made a deep impression on many people. If your parents bought you the entire series throughout your childhood, maybe they would appreciate her quote “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
Here’s an alternative way to describe Santa: “Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows.” — Edwin Osgood Grover.
For one who has already lost the magic, there’s this witticism from Shirley Temple: “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
Maybe this would be appropriate for your parenting arrangements?: “Seeing the light in my child’s eyes is all it takes to make Christmas the most magical time of the year.”
If your parents say they have everything they need already this year, why not try this quote?: “What is a better way to brighten someone’s day this holiday season than with a simple Merry Christmas greeting from the heart?”
Maybe your family has had a rocky year, so perhaps you might want to wish mom and dad this: “Keep looking forward to a better and safer year ahead. Merry Christmas.”
“Wherever my family may be, there will always be Christmas.” Isn’t that a great way to make your mom and dad feel good?
Here’s a heartwarming quote to write in the card you’re going to mail to your parents for Christmas. Maybe they don’t even know you’re planning to be there? “The best present you can give is time spent together. I can’t wait to celebrate Christmas with you.”
A traditional Christmas greeting for your parents could run something like this: “May we remember the true reason for this season, God sent His love to us on this day. Have a blessed Christmas!”

Sibling Christmas Quotes

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas”, says Johnny Carson. You could add “I’ve found a way around that. Here’s your card and present, delivered by hand.”
Dr. Seuss was beloved by many children. If your sibling was one of his fans, write this in their card. “Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.”
For a sibling get-together where alcohol will be consumed in quantity, this saying is sure to raise a smile, “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.” It’s an anonymous quote but very true for many.
A simple wish but true for siblings who don’t see as much of each other as they might like during the year: “May the spirit of Christmas bring you and your family hope, love, and happiness.”
“However we say Merry Christmas, everything suddenly becomes bright and happy.” This would be a very good quote for families from mixed cultural backgrounds.
If you and your sibling haven’t met up often recently, why not try: “Next Christmas, I hope that we can again hug each other tight and celebrate this season together.”
A simple wish here from one couple in a family to another part of it, “Love, peace, joy and good will is our wish for you. May you experience a Christmas filled with good memories to hold dear in your heart. Have a blessed Christmas!”
“While everyone is busy looking for awesome parties to attend, my family is busy preparing silly games for us to laugh about this holiday season.” And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Of all the gifts you’ve given me, our friendship is the most precious one. This Christmas, I wish you to feel all the joy and cheer of the season. Love you, (name or relationship of sibling).”
Say it simply with this wish, “So glad we’re family…and so grateful for all the great Christmas memories we share.”

Short Family Christmas Quote Ideas

The words of Helen Steiner Rice are always popular decorations for any card. Here is one of her shorter offerings: “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
Alexander Smith, meanwhile, penned this thought about Christmas, “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
Another good thought from Benjamin Franklin: “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Or how about this idea from Edna Ferber: “Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”
If you prefer a faith-based quote for Christmas, how about Brigham Young? “Love the giver more than the gift.”
Bob Hope was never short of ideas. “If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
Given that so many people enjoy cooking from Thanksgiving until New Year, Richard Paul Evans once said “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
Many people can relate to St Francis of Assisi. His famous prayer reminds us of this truth, “For it is in giving that we receive.”
Short, sweet and simple: “Spending time with my family is the best part of Christmas.”
For most families though, this is Christmas: “The best way to see Christmas is through the eyes of a child.”

Love Family Christmas Quotes

Spending time with those you love is always relaxing. Peg Bracken captures it best when she says that “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
Burton Hills has another thought on families at Christmas. “ The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
Films and television are a rich source of Christmas greetings. Frank Cross, from Scrooged, opined, “It's Christmas Eve. It's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.”
Meanwhile, Zuzu Bailey had this to say in It's a Wonderful Life: “Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”
If your family has had a tough year, maybe this saying by Ruth Carter Stapleton would be apt? “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
Here’s a variation on a well known Bible passage from Pope Francis: “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.”
Mother Teresa put it this way: “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
An anonymous saying that many people will appreciate: “Christmas is all about love, family and children. It doesn’t matter what we eat or what presents we get as long as the holidays are spent with loved ones. Happy happy happy Christmas.”
Andy Rooney spoke to parents everywhere when he suggested “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
Musician Evelyn Glennie’s thought is that “Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.”

For Wife and Husband at Christmas

Christmas sweaters are often the butt of jokes. Kristen Wiig quipped “There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”
No one seems to remember that it was Clement Clarke Moore who wrote this poem, but everyone knows the first line. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Charles M. Schulz, of Snoopy and Charlie Brown fame, believed “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
Charles Dickens was of the opinion that “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
A perfect quote from Bob Hope for a devoted husband and wife, “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.”
A.A.Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, appeals to all ages even though he was writing for children. In that timeless fashion which Pooh often adopts is the simple thought “Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.”
Here’s an interesting take on the commercialism that can seem so rife in November and December. Harlan Miller’s view is that “Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”
How about this note between a couple who have had a rough few months for any reason: “It doesn’t matter what has happened this year that has kept us apart from each other, just knowing you are here with me in heart still makes it a Merry Christmas.”
If you can’t be with your spouse this Christmas, you can simply write this in their card: “Miles apart from my family this Christmas is not what I longed for this year, but our love will keep us close to each other no matter what.”
Many people hold this as their perfect Christmas: “All I want for Christmas is to be surrounded by my family.”

For Boyfriend and Girlfriend at Christmas

If your partner is known for being the life and soul of the office Christmas party, then they might appreciate this quote from Phyllis Diller: “What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
For a simpler declaration to your loved one, how about Dr. Seuss? “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”
Kevin Alan Milne: “Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
Carrie Fisher is much missed by many people. She put her thoughts about Christmas very simply, “I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another.”
In a similar vein, Josephine Daskam Bacon has a sentence for anyone who has been struggling financially, “Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.”
For a new partner from their other half’s parents, this is a great quote: “We are beyond grateful that you became an awesome part of our year! May our hopeful wishes follow you home and warm you this Christmas season.”
Keep it simple but flirty with this short message, “Merry Kiss-mas, my love!”
If your guy is always warm and toasty, you can tease him by writing “Good thing I have you as my own personal heater!”
You could tease your partner by telling them “You are the gift which never stops giving”
And of course, there’s always Mariah Carey’s classic wish “All I want for Christmas is you!”

However you celebrate Christmas, with many people or few, sending traditional Christmas cards is part of the event. If you buy your cards from Boomf you will be able to choose cards to suit each recipient’s tastes. You can use the ideas in this list to find individual luxury Christmas card quotes for each family member too.