Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson
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 Johnson
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.

Lady Bird Johnson
Perhaps no place in any community is so democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Lady Bird Johnson
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson
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.

Lady Bird Johnson
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Lady Bird Johnson
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson
Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman—it just makes you look better to have a little color.

Lady Bird Johnson
It all began so beautifully. After a drizzle in the morning, the sun came out bright and clear. We were driving into Dallas. In the lead car were President and Mrs Kennedy...

Lady Bird Johnson
I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Lady Bird Johnson
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.

Lady Bird Johnson
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.

Lady Bird Johnson