Nancy Reagan Quotes

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?