Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Pearls are always appropriate.
I am happiest when I am alone.
Love of books is the best of all.
I am a woman above everything else.
I want to live my life, not record it.
You have only one chance to raise your child.
One should always dress like a marble column.
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
History -- its what those bitter old men write.
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.
[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
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?
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.