Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

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

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

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

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

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

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

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

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

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

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

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

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

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.