Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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 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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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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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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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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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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.