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First Lady Inspirational Quotes (120)

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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
Abigail Adams
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One should always dress like a marble column.
Jackie Kennedy
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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.
Abigail Adams
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I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Martha Washington
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Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.
Jackie Kennedy
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
Abigail Adams
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There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
Jackie Kennedy
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
Abigail Adams
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
Abigail Adams
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I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy
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Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy
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A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
Jackie Kennedy
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy
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You have only one chance to raise your child.
Jackie Kennedy
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My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail Adams
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One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Jackie Kennedy
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The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
Jackie Kennedy
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy
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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.
Abigail Adams
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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