Jay DeMarcus Quotes

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

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

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, it's my wife and my son and my daughter and I. We're home, and we open our presents together on Christmas Day, and then after we go visit the rest of the family.

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

What makes 'A Christmas Story' universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family... It's ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

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.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.

Thanksgiving is a big one for our family.

I love everything about Christmas - the food, the 24/7 family time, watching someone you care about open the perfect present - and '12 Days of Khrismas' allowed me to spread that energy throughout all my communities.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

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

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.

No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.