There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse,… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
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