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
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life
Depended
Mediocrity

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
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
Image
If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
Image
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
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
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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
Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
Ann Richards
Image
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
Image
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
Ann Richards
Image
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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
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
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
Ann Richards
Image
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
Ann Richards
Image
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
Ann Richards