Lady Bird Johnson

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

— Lady Bird Johnson

“You do what you can where you are. You musn’t feel impotent because you’re not all powerful.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— 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…

— Lady Bird Johnson

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

— Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and…

— Lady Bird Johnson

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

— Lady Bird Johnson

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

— 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.…

— Lady Bird Johnson

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

— Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

— Lady Bird Johnson

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

— Lady Bird Johnson

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and…

— Lady Bird Johnson

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations…

— Lady Bird Johnson

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was…

— Lady Bird Johnson

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who…

— Lady Bird Johnson

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste…

— 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…

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson