Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
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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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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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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 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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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 have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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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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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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The military is already sexually integrated.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to these authors' experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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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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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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We're all going to die.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.