Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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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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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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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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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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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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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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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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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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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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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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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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 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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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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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.