It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
![I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/lady-bird-johnson-73106.jpg)
I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.
Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
