Top 50 Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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.

I want to live.

A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.

Cancer is not a straight line. It’s up and down.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren’t willing to listen to another voice.

I’m part of a community that holds each other up, and it’s been great to be held up too.

If people think that you’re throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I’m not for that.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don’t just try to come in and take somebody else’s life.

I’ve spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it’s not that hope is going to save you.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

You wouldn’t know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

I don’t expect to get yesterday’s medicine. If I can help it, I’d like to get tomorrow’s medicine.

I hope I have important things to say.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That’s brave.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I’m not worried about me or what’s going to happen to me.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.

Maybe we all change over time.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I’ve had experiences that, you know, really couldn’t be replaced.

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.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn’t so happy with them.

I want to reclaim who I am.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

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.

I’m not just a cuckolded wife.

I’m a puzzle doer.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

The military is already sexually integrated.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I come out of real life.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

I love my books.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I loved campaigning.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It’s usually advised by consultants who don’t want to see you march to the end of a limb.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

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.

I’ve had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.