On Christmas Day in the Morning Quotes

“We really must make an effort to be there Christmas next year, Sam," she said to her husband, and Sam assented cheerfully. He only wished there were a father and mother somewhere in the world for him to go home to.”
― Grace S. Richmond, On Christmas Day in the Morning

“Dear Nan: It's a confounded, full-grown shame that not a soul of us all got home for Christmas—except yours truly, and he only for a couple of hours. What have the blessed old folks done to us that we treat them like this? I was invited to the Sewalls' for the day, and went, of course—you know why. We had a ripping time, but along toward evening I began to feel worried. I really thought Ralph was home—he wrote me that he might swing round that way by the holidays—but I knew the rest of you were all wrapped up in your own Christmas trees and weren't going to get there.”
― Grace S. Richmond, On Christmas Day in the Morning

“don't we owe the old home anything but a present tied up in tissue paper once a year?”
― Grace S. Richmond, On Christmas Day in the Morning