Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Short Quotes

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

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

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

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

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

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

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We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

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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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If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets... I want to get out of this country.

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

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

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One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.

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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.

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

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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To think that I very nearly didn't go... What if I'd been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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
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.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis