Amy Adams Quotes

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

My memories of Christmas, it was more about being around family.

It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.

Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

I just love being around my family during the holidays.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

When I think of Kansas, I think of family.

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

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

My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it's really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I'll have my tree up!

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

That is what Christmas should be about, I think - togetherness and playfulness. It's like a game.

It would be really cool to have my dad here to witness this, to see his grandchildren, to see this woman that I chose to share my life with, to just come walk on set and be like, 'Ah, this is how you make TV shows and movies.'

The valuable lesson is that holidays are about love, and that's what I have to try and channel.

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.