Top 639 Quotes & Sayings by Famous First ladies - Page 4

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

I want to live my life, not record it.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

My life really began when I married my husband.

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

I have cared for loved ones nearly all my life, so when I look in the mirror, I see a caregiver looking back at me. It began when I was 12 years old and my father became ill. Taking care of him took a toll on our entire family, my mother most of all.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Being a lady does not require silence.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

I have a strong tennis arm.

I hope I've contributed something to the mental health field. But I hope people will think - I've had so many wonderful opportunities, I tried to take advantage of them.