Francis P. Church
CSA Images//Getty Images“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.”
2Clement Clarke Moore
CSA-Printstock//Getty Images“His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!”
3Chris, "The Polar Express"
CSA Images//Getty Images“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 I was afraid I’d never hear. The ringing bells of Santa’s sleigh.”
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4Francis P. Church
"Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!”
5Shirley Temple Black
“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.”
6Robert Paul
“You know you're getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
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7Charmaine J. Forde
"An ounce of goodness everyday,
Can soothe the heart in many ways,
An ounce of goodness 'just because'
Don't wait until Christmas to be Santa Claus."
Jon Bon Jovi
“Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?”
9Lemony Snicket
“The real Santa Claus is at the mall.”
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10Anonymous
“Dear Santa, Before I explain, how much do you know already?”
11Truman Capote
“Of course there is a Santa Claus. It’s just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That’s why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.”
12Jack Handy
"If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus."
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13James Gould
"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about 10 that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."
14Tom Armstrong
"Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income, and flies to cities all over the world under the cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?"
15Victor Borge
"Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once a year."
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16Dick Gregory
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
17Herbert Hoover
"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
18Francis P. Church
"Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no Santa Claus! There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."
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19Edwin Osgood Grover
"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."
20Paul M. Ell
"They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
Maribeth B Jones is the Design Director of Country Living where she creates seasonal content full of warmth and playfulness. When she’s not wrangling chickens for a cover shoot you can find her collecting vintage oil portraits or flipping pancakes in her sunny, yellow kitchen with her two chatty daughters.
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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