Anne Reid Quotes

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

I had an amazing childhood.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I had a lovely time growing up.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.