Jackie Kennedy Quotes

History
its what those bitter old men write. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children. ~ Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. ~ Jackie Kennedy

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ~ Jackie Kennedy

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was. ~ Lydia Leonard

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way. ~ Jackie Kennedy

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Primer of Love [Lesson 14]
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction.
A husband lives and breathes his work all day long.
If he comes home to more table thumping,
how can the poor man ever relax?
- Jackie Kennedy

Lesson 14) Learn to nip lover's quarrels in the bud
by distraction and humor -- without raising your voice.

This does not include mastering that passive aggressive ploy called the silent treatment which is much louder and destructive than outright screaming. Nipping techniques include distraction, humor, rough sex and counting backwards from MCLV in Latin.Once you've mastered this technique, you'll spend the night neatly tucked in each other's arms -- though her ass will be a little sore. No argument about that. ~ Beryl Dov

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ~ Jackie Kennedy

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community. ~ Carmen Ejogo

Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is. ~ Lynda Resnick

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things. ~ Jackie Kennedy

One should always dress like a marble column. ~ Jackie Kennedy

As an emotional caretaker of her family, Jackie Kennedy was extraordinary. She defied the instructions of White House social advisers to make time for raising her children in as normal a way as possible. "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." – Jackie Kennedy ~ Anne Michaud

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. ~ Jackie Kennedy

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. ~ Jackie Kennedy

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress. ~ Jackie Kennedy

Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it. ~ Jackie Kennedy

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so. ~ Sally Bedell Smith

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? ~ Jackie Kennedy

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all. ~ Sandra Bernhard

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ~ Jackie Kennedy

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world. ~ Jackie Kennedy

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life. ~ Jackie Kennedy

The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say. ~ John Waters

I flatter myself on being able to at times walk out of the house looking like a poor man's Paris copy ... ~ Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? ~ Jackie Kennedy

Pearls are always appropriate. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I am happiest when I am alone. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. ~ Leonard Cohen

And when I stand
in the receiving line
like Jackie Kennedy
without the pillbox hat,
if Jackie were fat
and had taken enough Klonopin
to still an ox,
and you whisper
I think of you
every day,
don't finish with
because I've been going
to Weight Watchers
on Tuesdays and wonder
if you want to go too. ~ Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? ~ Jackie Kennedy

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. ~ Jackie Kennedy

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably. ~ Jackie Kennedy

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world - most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence. ~ Wayne Koestenbaum

He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that. ~ Deborah Blake

when i got home i took the clear paper that was wrapped over top of the ugly paper and wrapped it around my face tight enough to restrict my breathing. it was fun. ~ Ellen Kennedy

In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature. ~ William Kennedy

We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf. ~ John F. Kennedy

When I'm around you all I can think about is touching you. Tasting you. Having you. I want to push you against that car, pull off your jeans, your T-shirt. Spread you naked against the metal. Stroke you till you're so wet you're dripping. Then push my cock inside you. Make you come so hard you scream. ~ Jackie Ashenden

Bailey went quiet, her expression softening. "You're right," she finally said. "It wouldn't have been smart."
"Well, fuck me -- are you actually admitting that I was right about something?"
"It's like an eclipse," she muttered. "Happens every so often. ~ Elle Kennedy

Fran laughed. I still feel like we're kids, but just pretending to be adults. I thought there would be this turning point where you would just wake up one day, and bam! You're mature! ~ Sean Kennedy

While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back from Apollo 8 created the environmental movement. "They fuelled an awareness of the vulnerability of the Earth which still resonates with us today and shapes our behaviour." It was Kennedy who started it all with his pledge: ~ John F. Kennedy

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers. ~ John F. Kennedy

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy. ~ Jackie Chan

Allie." Dean leans forward and fixes me with an eerily somber stare. "This show is fucking stupid."

"I know," I say sheepishly. "But it's addictive. Trust me, one episode of this crap and you'll be hooked."

"Sorry, baby doll, but I can pretty much guarantee that's not gonna happen."

*

Dean

It happened.

God help me. I'm into this show.

I came over tonight with the single-minded purpose of working the charm and convincing Allie to get naked with me again. Instead, I'm sipping on a margarita, I've just watched two hours' worth of a French soap opera, and now I'm texting Logan to let him know I won't make it to Malone's. Because…God help me…I want to know what happens next. ~ Elle Kennedy

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy, Radio and television report to the American people in civil rights, June 11, 1963
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)
― John F. Kennedy ~ John F. Kennedy

Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted. ~ Jackie Collins

Respect has nothing to do with who is right and who is wrong. It has to do with allowing space for someone else's opinion. ~ Jackie Viramontez

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook ... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution. ~ John F. Kennedy

Me: u + me = wild animal sex 2nite?

She responds right away. Good, she's still up.

Her: u = tempting – me = already in bed ÷ sleep.

Me: Why the division sign??

Her: I don't know. I was trying to answer in math. Bottom line: I'm in bed.

Me: Perfect. That's right where I want u to be. I'll be there in 45. ~ Elle Kennedy

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand. ~ John F. Kennedy

I like the color of smart, the shade of funny, and sexy is my favorite hue. ~ Kennedy Ryan

Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about. ~ George Kennedy

This is why it's perilous to ignore a librarian. ~ Jeffe Kennedy

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. ~ Celina Jade

A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time. ~ Sharon Robinson

Compromise does not mean cowardice. ~ John F. Kennedy

People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling. ~ Jerry Izenberg

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. ~ John F. Kennedy

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected ~ Jackie Robinson

When I go down by the sandy shore
I can think of nothing I want more
Than to live by the booming sea
As the seagulls flutter round about me
I can run about
when the tide is out
With the wind and the sand and the sea all about
And the seagulls are swirling and diving for fish
Oh-to live by the sea is my only wish. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

We'll fix it before then," said Denny. "Don't worry."
Mr. Jones didn't look convinced. "If it wasn't for this dumb leg," he shouted, "I'd jump ship and give you a hand."
"No need," yelled Denny, "I remember everything you taught me."
Mr. Jones shook his head and smiled. "That's what I'm afraid of," he said. ~ Jackie French Koller

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time. ~ Jackie French

Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark. ~ Jackie Schaffer

The Dr. Nuts seemed only as an acid gurgling down into his intestine. He filled with gas, the sealed valve trapping it just as one pinches the mouth of a balloon. Great eructations rose from his throat and bounced upward toward the refuse-laden bowl of the milk glass chandelier. Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen. Everywhere there lurked pitfalls like Abelman, the insipid Crusaders for Moorish Dignity, the Mancuso cretin, Dorian Greene, newspaper reporters, stripteasers, birds, photography, juvenile delinquents, Nazi pornographers. And especially Myrna Minkoff. The musky minx must be dealt with. Somehow. Someday. She must pay. Whatever happened, he must attend to her even if the revenge took years and he had to stalk her through decades from one coffee shop to another, from one folksinging orgy to another, from subway train to pad to cotton field to demonstration. Ignatius invoked an elaborate Elizabethan curse upon Myrna and, rolling over, frantically abused the glove once more. ~ John Kennedy Toole

There were a number of early water-powered mills around Green Hill. Duncan Smith, Berry McDonald, Thomas Ross, Isham Richardson, and Enoch Raleigh Kennedy had gristmills on Cow Pen Creek. ~ William Lindsey McDonald

Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration. ~ Robert Dallek

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none. ~ Rose Kennedy

I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you." ~ Jackie Collins

When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism. ~ Robert Kennedy