Quote

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Ann Richards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
Father
Feelings
Found
Anything
Dad
Might
College
Always
Told
Feeling
Wrong

More quotes by Ann Richards

Image
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
Ann Richards
Image
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Ann Richards
Image
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
Image
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Ann Richards
Image
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
Ann Richards
Image
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
Ann Richards
Image
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
Ann Richards
Image
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Ann Richards
Image
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
Ann Richards
Image
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Ann Richards
Image
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
Ann Richards
Image
You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
Ann Richards
Image
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
Image
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Ann Richards
Image
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
Image
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
Image
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
Ann Richards
Image
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
Ann Richards
Image
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
Ann Richards
Image
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
Ann Richards