Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Biden

I mean, my students are texting me all the time. It could be 10 o'clock at night, 'Hey Dr. B., can you check my thesis statement?' You know, I'm in bed!

May God bless our troops.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.

I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.

I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

Well, when Joe Biden is president you will no longer see this separation of families along the border. We welcome these families to enter into the United States.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

Education is possibility set in motion.

We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

We can end cancer as we know it.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

People know Joe Biden. They've seen the strong parts of his character and how resilient he is.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It's not the right order of things.

I'm not a lady who lunches.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

When I go to the supermarket, I can see people looking in my cart. So I have to be careful what I buy and when. I send my sister to Costco to pick up the personal items.

You know, cancer is bipartisan. I mean, there are so many people whose lives are touched and changed by cancer that people are willing to work together to find cures, find solutions, make lives better for cancer patients. So I think people put politics aside. This isn't a political thing. This is a life issue.

My students have shown me so many times that it's not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position - it's about showing up when you're needed.

I've always believed you've got to steal the joyful moments when you can.

I buy my own clothes. I have a teacher's salary.

There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women's Rights and Civil Rights.

I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.

What I said was that Joe's family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn't show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.

I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.

It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.

Marrying Joe wasn't just about him. It was about Hunter and Beau as well. They had endured the loss of one mother already, and I couldn't risk having them lose another.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.

What's on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.

I have visited classrooms near military bases to learn more about what schools were doing to support their military kids. I met with teachers overseas to learn about the particular needs they face thousands of miles from America. And I listened to my own granddaughter, who dealt with her father's yearlong deployment to Iraq.

Most people probably don't know that Joe has a romantic side to him.

There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

When students come to the community college, they're focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

Life is change.

There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.

One day I was teaching my class and then I had to go to the White House right after, so literally, I took my dress to school. After my classes I went into the ladies room, changed into my outfit, got into the car, went to the White House. So there are real, you know, Superman moments!

Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris' Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.