Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Jackie Kennedy
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American first lady Jackie Kennedy.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
I am a woman above everything else.
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
I want to live my life, not record it.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.
Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.
History -- its what those bitter old men write.
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
Love of books is the best of all.
You have only one chance to raise your child.
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.
Pearls are always appropriate.
[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.
One should always dress like a marble column.
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
I am happiest when I am alone.
[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.
If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
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