Top 66 Jill Biden Quotes

What’s on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris’ Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.

People know Joe Biden. They’ve seen the strong parts of his character and how resilient he is.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you’ll find yourself going without it more often than not.

Well, when I’m out running, people don’t recognize me, which is great. I don’t feel pressure; I’m not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I’m doing it for myself.

I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.

I mean, my students are texting me all the time. It could be 10 o’clock at night, ‘Hey Dr. B., can you check my thesis statement?’ You know, I’m in bed!

There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong.

We can be proud of a president that brings families together instead of tearing them apart. A president who believes our best days are ahead of us. That’s Joe Biden.

Well, when Joe Biden is president you will no longer see this separation of families along the border. We welcome these families to enter into the United States.

I think it’s important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

The role I have always felt most at home in is being ‘Dr. B.’

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

I am an educator.

What I said was that Joe’s family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn’t show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.

Since Beau’s death, I’m definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that’s been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they’re there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it’s my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I’m a fair teacher.

I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, ‘Joe, I really want to continue to teach.’ And he said, ‘Absolutely. You should be doing what you love.’ Politics – that’s Joe’s life, really, his love. But teaching is mine.

It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.

I’m an English teacher, so I’m used to reading and I’m used to reading out loud.

I never took a political science course.

I think it’s important how I come across to my students. I want them to see how professional women dress.

Many Americans don’t know anyone in the military, so they aren’t aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

I’ve always believed you’ve got to steal the joyful moments when you can.

The American people know Joe Biden. They know his values. They know what he stands for.

I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women’s Rights and Civil Rights.

I’m not a lady who lunches.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It’s taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I’d go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I’ve come across that I would avoid.

Marrying Joe wasn’t just about him. It was about Hunter and Beau as well. They had endured the loss of one mother already, and I couldn’t risk having them lose another.

My students have shown me so many times that it’s not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position – it’s about showing up when you’re needed.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

I’m a gardener, and I love to plant.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people’s goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

Well, I’m a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service – even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can’t hear their feet. And second, I can’t see their shadows.

I buy my own clothes. I have a teacher’s salary.

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

I’m a grandmother.

When students come to the community college, they’re focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life – from residents at a battered women’s shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees – and learn about their lives and struggles.

There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you’ll never hear.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It’s not the right order of things.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do – that’s just a simple fact of it.

There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.

I think when people hear my book on Audible, they’ll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

I don’t think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they’re so focused.

I’m not a politician. I am an English teacher.

I try to take good care of myself.

Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it’s good that women now… have the courage! Because it’s not easy.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

We can end cancer as we know it.

Teaching is not a job. It’s a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.

Health is very important to me.