“On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.”– Nigella Lawson Related Quotes “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.”– Katharine Whitehorn “The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand making sure I was settled in bed.”– Paul Engle “A friend gave me a CD of the ‘Pathetique’ Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started ‘ta ta ta taaa.’ It was too long for me. I didn’t understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.”– Gustavo Dudamel