Ann Richards Quotes
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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I have an awfully good life.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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Ann Richards
- Born: September 1, 1933
- Died: September 13, 2006
- Occupation: Former Governor of Texas
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