Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

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.

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 First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

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.

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.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

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.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

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.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.