Jackie Kennedy Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

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

Pearls are always appropriate.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

One should always dress like a marble column.

I am a woman above everything else.

I am happiest when I am alone.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

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

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I want to live my life, not record it.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

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

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

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

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

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

Love of books is the best of all.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

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

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

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.