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Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: environment, Mirror, Nature, Interest
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Politics, politician, Orphan, Bachelor
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
— Lady Bird Johnson, Quotes from Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ's First Lady
Tagged: Confidence, Courage, Fear, shyness
“[About her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson]: He was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable -- but I didn't know quite what.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Personality, Character of a Person
“Lyndon loved everybody, and more than half the world is women. I do know that he wanted me the most.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Love, affection, Loyalty, Marriage, Desire
“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.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Problem, Existence, Depression, tension, Existential Crisis, World, Life
“When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Snow, Youth, Age, Ageing, Growing Old
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Committee, Passion, Knowledge, Leadership
“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.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Moving On, staying strong, coping, Courage, Motivational
“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.””
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Pain, Problem, Numb
“The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: First LAdy, Public Service, Politics, Marriage
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Community, library, Reading, Making Reading A Habit, Interest
“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.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Art, Soul, window, World, Perception
“[About their 1943 purchase of radio station KTBC] He told me I needed to get down there to Austin and learn all about the station -- to familiarize myself with the staff, the market, and the accounts. I understood that we couldn't make a success of it and be running the station from Washington, so I went to work full-time.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: radio, Work, Staff, market, Dedication
“No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.”
— Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary
Tagged: News, Bad News
“The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: coach, Tale, saying
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Hope, Flowers, motivation
“I had the idea that people were supposed to love me because I had an interesting mind, a kind heart, and a warm smile. I thought that Lyndon's emphasis on clothes and appearance was the wrong system of values. He used to say that a lot of the people that I met would only see me once, and that the opinion they would form would persist. He wanted them to have a good opinion of me. By the world's rules, he was right. I was wrong.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Thoughts, Love, Personality, Mind, heart, Smile, Joy
“I think the most frustrated I've been lately is reading a speech that Senator Fulbright made in which he indicated that the country is damned because we are spending so much in Vietnam instead of spending it here to take care of the poor and underprivileged -- this from a man who has never voted for any civil rights measure and who even voted against Medicare in 1964.

It will be sheer luxury someday to talk instead of to act.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Tagged: Speech, rights, Helping Others, Words, Action
“[About the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 1963] One last happy moment I had was looking up and seeing Mary Griffith leaning out of a window waving at me. Then almost at the edge of town, on our way to the Trade Mart where we were going to have the luncheon, we were rounding a curve, going down a hill and suddenly there was a sharp loud report -- a shot.

It seemed to me to come from the right above my shoulder from a building. Then a moment and then two more shots in rapid succession. There had been such a gala air that I thought it must be firecrackers or some sort of celebration.”
— Lady Bird Johnson, Quotes from Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ's First Lady
Tagged: Assasination, JFK, Reminiscing, Memory, shooting
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