Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I hope I have important things to say.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

I grew up in a Navy family.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

The military is already sexually integrated.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I have a husband who adores me.

We're all going to die.

I come out of real life.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Maybe we all change over time.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.