Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Thinking
Saying
Like
Read
Everyone
House
Headstone
Remember
Tombstone
Government
Opened
Really
Kept
Think
Clean
More quotes by Ann Richards
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
Ann Richards
Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
Ann Richards
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
Ann Richards
I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
Ann Richards
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
I have an awfully good life.
Ann Richards
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Ann Richards
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
Ann Richards
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Ann Richards
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
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
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
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
Ann Richards
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
Ann Richards
One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
Ann Richards
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
Ann Richards
We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
Ann Richards
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
Ann Richards
Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
Ann Richards
Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
Ann Richards
