Lady Bird Johnson Quotes - Page 2

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• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Inspirational, Flames, Knowledgeable Person

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Jobs, Land, Childhood

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• I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Art, Clothes, Looks

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Pain, Problem, Hell

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.238, University of Texas Press

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• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Should Have, Politics, Politician

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• Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Knowing, Joy, Letters

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Crazy, Our World, Texas

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Husband, Politics, Firsts

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• Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Christmas, Bustle, Bother

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• Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  United States, World, Way

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• I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Unique, Opportunity, Stories

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• We had a delicious dinner of too much.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Dinner, Too Much, Delicious

  1970 On dining at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. A White House Diary.

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• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Media, News

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.157, University of Texas Press

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• The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Running, Disappointment, Pumpkin

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• 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.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Jobs, Husband, Wife

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• I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Self, Important, Towns

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.692, University of Texas Press

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