Top 639 Quotes & Sayings by Famous First ladies - Page 10

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

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.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

I am not a 'yes' person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

I'm always focused on pieces that have superior cut, and I tend to like color.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

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?

Donald has a deep and unbounding determination and a never-give-up attitude. I have seen him fight for years to get a project done - or even started - and he does not give up! If you want someone to fight for you and your country, I can assure you, he is the 'guy.'

I don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I am a woman above everything else.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.