Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person – her husband.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
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My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
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I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
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Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
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Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
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The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.