Jackie Kennedy Quotes - Page 2

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

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

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?

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

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.

[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.

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

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

[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.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

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

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

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

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

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

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

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

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

What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.