Richard Attenborough Quotes

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

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

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

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

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.

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

One of the secrets of 'A Christmas Story' is that it's a relatable story. They feel like our family.

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

You have pretty much the same fan base in Memphis, year over year the same group. We watched teenagers in the stands become parents. You'd see little kids become young men and women. Those relationships mean much more than just basketball.

I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.