Lady Bird Johnson quotes
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“When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.”
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“Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
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“The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”
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“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
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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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“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.”
-- Lady Bird JohnsonSource : "Modern Museum Reopens With New Wings" by Richard F. Shepard, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 1964.
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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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“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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“There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.”
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“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
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“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
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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.”
-- Lady Bird JohnsonSource : Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press
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“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.”
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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.”
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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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“How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.”
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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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“The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.”
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“Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.”
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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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“Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.”
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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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“We had a delicious dinner of too much.”
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“The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.”
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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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“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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“I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.”
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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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“Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.”
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“I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.”
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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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“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!”
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“I want us to know our world.  If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.”
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“Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.”
-- Lady Bird JohnsonSource : "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.
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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 love Washington, but it is a self-important town.”
-- Lady Bird Johnson
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