Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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He seems like a nice charming guy. Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
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What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.