Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Almost everybody embraces life.
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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.
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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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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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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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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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I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
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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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We're all going to die.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
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I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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I hope I have important things to say.