Wendy Davis Quotes

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism. ~ Wendy Davis

I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else. ~ Wendy Davis

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education ... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible. ~ Wendy Davis

It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation. ~ Wendy Davis

I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot. ~ Wendy Davis

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with. ~ Wendy Davis

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions. ~ Wendy Davis

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence. ~ Wendy Davis

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us. ~ Wendy Davis

Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. ~ Wendy Davis

I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you. ~ Wendy Davis

The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott, ~ Wendy Davis

I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat. ~ Wendy Davis

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top. ~ Wendy Davis

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.

Me. ~ Alicen Grey

Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests. ~ Wendy Davis

Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story. ~ Wendy Davis

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true. ~ Wendy Davis

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state. ~ Wendy Davis

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing. ~ Wendy Davis

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done. ~ Wendy Davis

I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV. ~ Wendy Davis

As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples. ~ Wendy Davis

We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families. ~ Wendy Davis

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family. ~ Wendy Davis

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas. ~ Wendy Davis

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change. ~ Wendy Davis

When I think about that kind of spirit. I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor. ~ Wendy Davis

Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away. ~ Wendy Davis

The best of Texas is yet to come. ~ Wendy Davis

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that. ~ Wendy Davis

Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans. ~ Wendy Davis

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office. ~ Wendy Davis

I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for. ~ Wendy Davis

[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder. ~ Gordon Klingenschmitt

I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day. ~ Wendy Davis

Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art. ~ Wendy Davis

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done. ~ Wendy Davis

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach. ~ Wendy Davis

The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much. ~ Warwick Davis

Oh, aren't you cute? It's absolutely...," Hook says, scratching his head, "darling. ~ Wendy Spinale

On the trail, all I had to do was walk. It was up to me how far I wanted to walk and where I wanted to end up. I could stop when I wanted, I could eat when I wanted, I could take naps at any point during the day.The trail allowed me to feel a strong sense of freedom. And it helped me to see the oppression of a busy schedule and the way we multitask in civilization. I no longer saw what was civil about filling my life with commitments if I couldn't stop to watch the sunset or listen to the birds sing. ~ Jennifer Pharr Davis

May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . . ~ King Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. ~ Bette Davis

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating. ~ Lucy Davis

Getting old ain't for sissies. ~ Bette Davis

If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked. ~ Miles Davis

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis

I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had a lot to do with the dismantling of the movement and also the winning of certain victories had something to do with the inability of the movement to take those victories as the launching point for new goals and developing new strategies. ~ Angela Davis

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. ~ Wendy Beckett

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else. ~ Patti Davis

What the bloody hell are you doing in my bed with my sister?
I'm extremely hot, Teag said the first thing he thought of. He was incredibly hot, and his answer had thrown Julian off, giving him at least a moment's reprieve. He had wondered if something like this might happen.
You're hot? Julian sounded confused. Are you hot yourself or is it like being near something hot? ~ Wendy Clements

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom. ~ Wendy Kopp

Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay. ~ Victor Davis Hanson

My ego only needs a good rhythm section ~ Miles Davis

As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs. ~ Wendy Starland

Good gracious, he was sexy - a word that had not existed in my personal vocabulary until that moment. This guy was sexy like it was his job or something. ~ Wendy Higgins

Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way ~ Mac Davis

If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai. ~ Charles Nelson Reilly

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play. ~ Davis Miller

On May 13, he met the official announcement that England recognized the belligerency of the Confederacy. This beginning of a new education tore up by the roots nearly all that was left of Harvard College and Germany. He had to learn - the sooner the better - that his ideas were the reverse of truth; that in May, 1861, no one in England - literally no one - doubted that Jefferson Davis had made or would make a nation, and nearly all were glad of it, though not often saying so. They mostly imitated Palmerston who, according to Mr. Gladstone, "desired the severance as a diminution of a dangerous power, but prudently held his tongue." The sentiment of anti-slavery had disappeared. ~ Henry Adams

I've heard the band is supposed to be out of this world, Miss Vicks was saying. ~ Kathryn Davis

Convincing Lana I forgive her for what she did is the least of it.
I have years of stupid mistakes to make up for. ~ Siobhan Davis

Learning to hear when there is no crisis is good practice for when we are under fire and need urgent help. ~ Wendy Backlund

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world. ~ Wendy Lesser

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on. ~ Sammy Davis Jr.

How strange it is to realize now that although I was frightened of the emptiness between us, that emptiness was not his fault but mine: I was waiting to see what he would give me, how he would entertain me. And yet I was incapable of being profoundly interested in him or, maybe, in anyone. Just the reverse of what I thought at the time, when it seemed so simple: he was too callow, or too cautious, or just too young, not complex enough yet, and so he did not entertain me, and it was his fault. ~ Lydia Davis

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time. ~ Hope Davis

Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged. ~ Ellen F. Davis

Nine-Line Triolet
Here's a fine mess we got ourselves into,
My angel, my darling, true love of my heart
Etcetera. Must stop it but I can't begin to.
Here's a fine mess we got ourselves into -
Both in spin with nowhere to spin to,
Bound by the old rules in life and in art.
Here's a fine mess we got ourselves into,
(I'll curse every rule in the book as we part)
My angel, my darling, true love of my heart. ~ Wendy Cope

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John 8:12). ~ Will Davis Jr.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise. ~ Wendy Kopp

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am. ~ Jonathan Davis

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs. ~ Wendy Kopp

Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my head a Neph shouldn't have! ~ Wendy Higgins

moment she'd long waited for. The Hunters fell to complete ~ John M. Davis

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. ~ Bette Davis