Elizabeth Edwards

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

— Elizabeth Edwards

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

— Elizabeth Edwards

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death…

— Elizabeth Edwards

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they…

— Elizabeth Edwards

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors,…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of…

— Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

— Elizabeth Edwards

“She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

— Elizabeth Edwards

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no…

— Elizabeth Edwards

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to…

— Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going…

— Elizabeth Edwards

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

— Elizabeth Edwards

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but…

— Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good.…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly…

— Elizabeth Edwards

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it…

— Elizabeth Edwards