Jackie Kennedy Quotes

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

I am happiest when I am alone.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

I want to live my life, not record it.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

I am a woman above everything else.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

One should always dress like a marble column.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Love of books is the best of all.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.