Jackie Kennedy Quotes - Page 3

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.