Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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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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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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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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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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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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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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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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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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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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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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.