Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Edwards
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American lawyer Elizabeth Edwards.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
I want to reclaim who I am.
I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
I'm not just a cuckolded wife.
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Maybe we all change over time.
I come out of real life.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Tabloid news is tabloid news.
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
We're all going to die.
I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
I want to live.
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
I grew up in a Navy family.
The military is already sexually integrated.
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Almost everybody embraces life.
I'm a puzzle doer.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
I hope I have important things to say.
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