Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

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If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
So many people, you know, hit the White House with their dictaphone running. I never even kept a journal. I thought, 'I want to live my life, not record it.'

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The ring was all blood-stained... so I put the ring on Jack's finger... and then I kissed his hand...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

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For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But then I realized history made Jack what he was.... For Jack, history was full of heroes.

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I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.

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I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction.

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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

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Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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I said, "I want to be in there when he dies"… so Burkeley forced his way into the operating room and said, "It's her prerogative, it's her prerogative..." and I got in, there were about forty people there. Dr. Perry wanted to get me out. But I said "It's my husband, his blood, his brains are all over me."

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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?

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The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

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It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.

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These big Texas interns kept saying, "Mrs. Kennedy, you come with us", they wanted to take me away from him... But I said "I'm not leaving"… Dave Powers came running to me at the hospital, crying when he saw me, my legs, my hands were covered with his brains... When Dave saw this he burst out weeping... I said "I'm not going to leave him, I'm not going to leave him"… I was standing outside in this narrow corridor... ten minutes later this big policeman brought me a chair.

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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

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You spoiled us beyond belief... I have never seen the White House look so perfect. There is no hidden corner of it that is not beautiful now.
Letter to Richard and Pat Nixon after White House visit

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His head was so beautiful. I tried to hold the top of his head down, maybe I could keep it in... but I knew he was dead.

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We know you understand that even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth — birth, marriage, death. We wish our wedding to be a private moment in the little chapel among the cypresses of Skorpios.

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

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One man can make a difference and every man should try.

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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
There'll be great Presidents again—and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me—but there'll never be another Camelot again.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
When they carried Jack in, Hill threw his coat over Jack's head, and I held his head to throw the coat over it. It wasn't repulsive to me for one moment — nothing was repulsive to me —

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

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