Ann Richards Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.”

“Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.”

“Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.”

“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.”

“People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.”

“Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.”

“I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.”

“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”

“I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.”

“Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.”