“The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and ...” — Richard Attenborough Quote

“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.”

“I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.”

“I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'”

“Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.”

“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”

“I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.”