Top 639 Quotes & Sayings by Famous First ladies - Page 7

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

I don't really yell at people.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

I've always worked - I can't stay at home and do Cokes and teas, although I think that for those people who want to do that, then that's surely important to them.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.

I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

It's nice to win.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to refresh myself and put some tonic on - one with vitamin C - and then an oxygen cream with vitamins A, C, and E. That's very important to me so that my skin will stay moisturized throughout the day.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

I am happiest when I am alone.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.