Quote

I have an awfully good life.

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
Awfully
Good
Life

More quotes by Ann Richards

Image
July does not a November election make.
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
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
Image
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
Image
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
Ann Richards
Image
Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
Ann Richards
Image
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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
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
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
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
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
Ann Richards
Image
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
Image
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
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
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