Nancy Reagan famous quotes

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Inspirational #Optimism #Giving

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Believe #Hands #Abortion

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Beautiful #Men #Common

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Astrology #Care

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Perseverance #Water #Tea

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Inspirational #Cancer #People

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Feminism #Want #What You Want

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Political #Drug #Tone

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Dinner #States #Accomplished

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
-- Nancy Reagan

#Sleep #Years #Eight

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
-- Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Radiation #Schedules #Kind

I don't really yell at people.
-- Nancy Reagan

#People

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Thinking #Feminine

I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
-- Nancy Reagan

#House #Want #Maintenance

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
-- Nancy Reagan

#White #House #Privacy

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Campaigns #Very Good #Wells

Just say no to drugs!
-- Nancy Reagan

#Drug #Say No To Drugs #Just Say No

A lot of what acting is paying attention.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Theatre #Acting #Attention

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Cells #Giving #Suffering

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Thinking #People #Experts

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourself out of this promise.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Promise #World #Wonderful

I'm doing what I want to do.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Want

I've always gone for the more understated look.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Gone #Looks #Understated

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Jobs #Vacation #President

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Thinking

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Lonely #White #House

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Father #Conservative #Rich

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mother #Southern #Democrat

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Years #Astrology #People

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Punishment #Favors #Capital Punishment

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Memories #Years #Disease

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Years #Library #Lucky

Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Long #Wife #Boss

What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Hurt #Pain #Grief

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Children #Elderly #Grandparent

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Feet #Different #Each Day

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Jobs #Husband #President

The movies were custard compared to politics....
-- Nancy Reagan

Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Children #Cells #People

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mother #Daughter #Doctors

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Home #People #Very Happy

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Country #Husband #Leader

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Opportunity #Cells #Promise

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Cells #Long #Research

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Cells #People #Research

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Grateful #Cells #President

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Belief #Building #Embrace

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mean #President #Firsts

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Red

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Believe #Abortion #Want

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Children #Eye #Color

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Life Is Precious #Life Is #Said

My life really began when I married my husband.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Husband #Married #My Husband

Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
-- Nancy Reagan

#Cancer #Examination #Hearing

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Friendship #Perspective #Doe

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Thinking #People #Would Be

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Political #Matter

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mother #Flower #Men

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Political #Training #Acting

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Children #Crazy #Trying

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Losing #Hopeless #Bleak

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Art #Writing #Phones

The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.
-- Nancy Reagan

#White #House #Proud

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Dream #Children #Heart

My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mets

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Mean #Justice #President

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Careers

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Active

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Frills

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Thinking

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
-- Nancy Reagan

#Husband #Thinking #Alive