Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?
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Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
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I have a husband who adores me.
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I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
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I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
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You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
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Almost everybody embraces life.
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
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If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
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I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
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I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
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I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
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This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
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Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.
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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
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You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
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I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
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Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.