70 Christmas Tree Quotes To Spark The Joy Of The Season

Our latest collection of Christmas tree quotes to help you reach great heights of holiday joy.

Christmas trees are a big part of the Christmas holiday.

It is believed that Christmas trees originated in Germany. According to history, the first Christmas tree in America was displayed in the 1830s.

However, because Christmas trees were considered a pagan symbol, many Americans were unwilling to accept the tradition.

It wasn’t until 1846 that Americans started warming up to the Christmas tree tradition after Queen Victoria and her family were seen standing next to a decorated Christmas tree.

By 1830, these trees had gained their true popularity, and they have grown to what we know today.

Today, beyond the birth of Christ, a Christmas tree is a symbol of joy and togetherness for most families.

Also, around the tree is where most of the Christmas celebrations happen.

From singing merry carols and opening gifts to catching up and laughing with family and friends.

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What are the benefits of reading Christmas tree Quotes

Reading Christmas tree quotes will help you in many ways.

Here is what you’ll gain by reading these quotes:

• They will give you a deeper understanding of Christmas trees
• You’ll get the motivation you need to spruce up your tree
• The quotes will remind you to be jolly and merry
• You’ll get inspiration for your social media posts and Instagram captions.
• They will give a reason to get your own Christmas tree

Without wasting your time, here are some of our favorite Christmas tree quotes and sayings to get you in the holiday spirit.

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Inspirational Christmas tree quotes

1. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.” – Nora Roberts

2. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

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3. “Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” – Tom Baker

4. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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5. “The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree, those to me, are the scents of the holidays.” – Blake Lively

6. ”The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Elf

7. “…freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night…”― John Geddes

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8. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Helen Steiner Rice

9. “It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it.” – Charlie Brown

10. “Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” — David Cameron

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Short Christmas tree quotes

11. “I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree.” – Thomas Menino

12. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes

13. “Christmas trees make us feel happy and uplifted.” – Jacqueline Farmer

14. “Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.” — Tupac Shakur

15. “Christmas trees remind us of better times yet to come.” – James Hewitt

16. “May your days be merry and bright.” — White Christmas

17. “The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.”― Andy Rooney

18. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith

19. “The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect.” – Charles N. Barnard

20. “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” — Freya Stark

Funny Christmas tree quotes

21. “A Christmas tree, the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.” – Jay Leno

22. “Lots of people were activating phones under the Christmas tree.” – Peter Ritcher

23. “Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.” – Bill Bryson

24. “They’ve got plastic Christmas trees now. They’re hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.” – Milton Berle

25. “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” – Dan Florence

26. “Christmas trees don’t grow on trees; they need rainbows, lumberjacks, and Leprechauns on unicorns playing jock jams on glockenspiel.” – Ryan Ross

27. “I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,” I tell people, “mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.” – Victoria Moran

29. “If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.” – Ernest Hemingway

30. “Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.” – Orson Welles

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31. “The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money.” – Andy Rooney

32. “Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.” – Joan Winmill Brown

33. “Yes, a Christmas tree is something we cannot do without.” – Stan Berenstain

34. “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber

35. “I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I’m one of those people.” – Rachel Boston

36. “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas

37. “I lit up like a Christmas tree.” – Hazel Grace

38. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” — Charles M. Schulz

39. “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – William Thomas Ellis

40. “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving

More Christmas tree quotes

41. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde

42. “Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.” – Greg Fitzsimmons

43. “We really love decorating the Christmas tree around Christmas and have our little fun by playing Secret Santa.” – Sunny Singh

44. “The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.” – Tess Gerritsen

45. “She could not believe how lucky she was to have an ornament from Santa’s own tree.”
― James Barbato

46. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken

47. “I don’t know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic.”
― Stephanie Perkins

48. “Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” — Joan Mills

49. “It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we’d go out ‘tree hunting.’”― Jenny Han

50. “Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” — Norman Wesley Brooks

Christmas Tree Quotes To Uplift Your Christmas Vibes 

51. “It’s hard to describe exactly what makes the perfect Christmas tree. The physical requirements are straightforward enough. The tree must stand tall and straight.” — Julie Salamon

52. “Bringing the past and the present together with a tradition that was timeless to those who had grown up with Christmas tree.” — Fred Neuschel

53. “Be like the Christmas tree; evergreen, shining, full of lights, and full of gifts.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

54. “I may be biased, but even without all of these fancy decorations, Christmas trees are special. Cause they remind us this is the season, that we should all love one another.” — John Loy

55. “A glittering Christmas tree, trimmed for the holiday season, is a joyful sight.” — Jacqueline Farmer

56. “There’s nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.” ― Jenny Han

57. “A smile can always be seen on even the most selfish and bitter person when viewing a well designed Christmas tree.” — James Hewitt

58. “Of all the special decorations with which we adorn our homes for the festive season of Christmas, the most popular is the Christmas tree.” — Rev. Cecil Andrew Newell

59. “Christmas tree was something quite exotic. It nourished their desire for a piece of nature, for an open landscape where the wind blew and the air was sweet.”  ― Julie Salamon

60. “Don’t you love Christmas? Anything goes wrong in the world, Christmas makes it go away. Decorations, carols, tree.” — David E. Kelley

Celebrate the Joy of the Season with These Heartwarming Christmas Tree Quotes

61. “I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.” ― Muddy Waters

62. “God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.” ― Max Lucado

63. “There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.” ― Nikki Sixx

64. “Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.” ― Bill Murray

65. “If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.” ― Philip Yancey

66. “Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I’d load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.” ― Willis Earl Beal

67. “I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.” ― Taylor Swift

68. “I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.” ― Milton Berle

69. “I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You’ve got to plug this painting in, and it’s got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.” ― David Lynch

70. In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.” ― Paulo Coelho

Which of these Christmas tree quotes is your favorite?

Christmas trees are an essential part of the holiday season. Hopefully, these quotes helped get you in the holiday spirit.

Which of the quotes resonated with you best? Do you have any other favorite Christmas tree quotes and sayings to add? Let us know in the comment section below.

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