A collection of quotes and thoughts by Lady Bird Johnson on freedom, ideas, community, society, art, politician, pain, environment, surroundings and beauty.
43 Motivational Lady Bird Johnson Quotes That Will Make Your Day
Claudia Alta Taylor, renowned as Lady Bird Johnson, was the First lady of United States during the period from 1963 to 1969. She was an environmentalist and investor, and also proved her mettle as a competent manger. She worked rigorously to embellish nation’s highways and cities. She reckoned a capital embellishment project titled ‘Society For A More Beautiful Capital’ that worked towards boosting the physical conditions of Washington D.C for the residents as well as for people visiting the place. She also worked towards beautification of highways, inter-states, open spaces and green belts. She also penned down a diary titled ‘White House Diary’ which expressed the momentous events of her times. She reveived ‘The Presidential Medal Of Freedom’ in 1977. She was also awarded the ‘Congressional Gold Medal’ in 1988 which made her the first wife of a President to receive such honor. Following is a collection of thoughts and views by Lady Bird Johnson, known for her beautification campaigns and love for environment. Browse through the quotes and sayings by Lady Bird Johnson that will inspire you to do your bit towards the environment.
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.
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.
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.
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
Lady Bird Johnson
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.
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson
How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
Lady Bird Johnson
Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.
Lady Bird Johnson
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.
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.
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.
Lady Bird Johnson
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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.
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
