Quote

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

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
Mediocrity
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life
Depended

More quotes by Ann Richards

Image
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Ann Richards
Image
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Ann Richards
Image
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
Ann Richards
Image
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Ann Richards
Image
July does not a November election make.
Ann Richards
Image
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
Image
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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
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
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Ann Richards
Image
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
Ann Richards
Image
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
Image
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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
You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
Ann Richards
Image
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
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
Image
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
Image
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
Ann Richards
Image
If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
Ann Richards