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Quotes by First-lady
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
32
"I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband."
22
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
14
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
12
"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
11
"I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time."
11
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
10
"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
Bed,
7
"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
7
"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.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'"
7
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
6
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
6
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
5
"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."
5
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
5
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
5
"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
4
"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."
4
"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
4
"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
4
"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
4
"My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe."
4
"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."
4
"Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it."
4
"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."
4
"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
3
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
3
"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
3
"As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids."
3
"We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers."
3
"The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity."
3
"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
3
"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
3
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
3
"We are coming back just four years from today."
3
"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."
3
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
3
"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
3
"Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in."
2
"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
2
"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
2
"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
2
"Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?"
2
"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
2
"If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home."
2
"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
2
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