“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
  ~~Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

"Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?"
  ~~Katherine Jenkins

"Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his bead. 
No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; 
cold, piping for the blood to dance to; 
Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious. Glorious!
"What's to-day?" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes."
  ~~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
  ~~Tom Stoppard

"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer."
  ~~Will Rogers

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick -
even when you're home."
  ~~Carol Nelson

"My birdie looked wise
 With his little black eyes,
As he peeked and peered from his perch at me
With a throbbing throat and a flutter of glee,
 As if he would say--
 Sing trouble away,
Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee-dee."
  ~~Hanford Lennox Gordon