Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Cultural  

1. Our fantasies and myths are important, and often they are spiritually if not literally true. This saying originated in 1897 in a newspaper editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church, written in reply to a girl named Virginia who said that her friends had told her there was no Santa Claus. Church also said about Santa Claus that “ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”

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Example Sentences

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus even in this baroque Pearl of the Orient," he wrote.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."

From Time Magazine Archive

If the collected works of William Saroyan�twelve full-length plays, seven novels and some 1,500 short stories�could be sap-boiled down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."

From Time Magazine Archive