CHILDHOOD QUOTES A CHRISTMAS CAROL

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Narrator

“I wish to be left alone… That is what I mean to say. That is the whole message. I don’t make myself merry at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” – Scrooge

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Narrator

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.” – Narrator

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Scrooge

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley

“I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.” – Ghost of Christmas Present

“A small matter… to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.” – Scrooge

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Narrator

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Narrator

“It is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.” – Narrator

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim THANKFUL FOR MY MOTHER QUOTES

“I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Scrooge

“He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up into the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure.” – Narrator

“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.” – Scrooge

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral, for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.” – Scrooge

“It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.” – Scrooge

“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!” – Scrooge

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Narrator

“It was a time when most people saw a world where everyone had a right to something and where all children should be brought up to live the good life.” – Narrator

“Scrooge had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards.” – Narrator

“I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Scrooge

“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Narrator

“It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” – Narrator