Santa Claus Quotes

“There is no Santa,” my friend had insisted, but I knew he was wrong.

He stood, holding the bell high above him, and called out, “The first gift of Christmas!”

I reached into my pocket, but the only thing I felt was a hole. I had lost the silver bell from Santa Claus’s sleigh.

I shook the bell. It made the most beautiful sound my sister and I had ever heard.

On Christmas eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets. I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound—a sound a friend had told me I’d never hear—the ringing bells of Santa’s sleigh.

What I wanted more than anything was one silver bell from Santa’s sleigh.

“They are gathering at the center of the city . . . That is where Santa will give the first gift of Christmas.”

Santa circled once above us, then disappeared in the cold, dark polar sky.

“Found this on the seat of my sleigh. Fix that hole in your pocket.” Signed, “Mr. C.”

Santa shouted out the reindeer’s names and cracked his whip. His team charged forward and climbed into the air.

“I know just what to do!” The Grinch laughed in his throat. “I’ll make a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat.”

“Then he slid down the chimney, a rather tight pinch. But if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch.”

“Oh, Mr. Edwards, thank you, thank you for going all the way to Independence to find Santa Claus for us.”

“But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— ‘Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!’ ”

“When what to my wondering eyes did appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,”

“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;”

“With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.”

“He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.”

“He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;”

“He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;”

“So up to the housetop the coursers they flew With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too— And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.”

“And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: ‘Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!’ ”

“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.”

“His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!”