Ann Richards Quotes

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• Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life. Company
• Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get… Bearing
• I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost. Been
• One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot… All
• A road to a friend's house is never long. House
• Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work… Achieve
• Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. Date
• I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make… Addiction
• We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't… Assumption
• We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days,… America
• Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected. Been
• 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… Best
• Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor… America
• People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. Group
• I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. Book
• After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. All
• Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. Born
• The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need. All
• You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig. Call
• I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house. Clean

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