Elizabeth Edwards famous quotes

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Thinking #Grieving

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Moving #Divorce #Thinking

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Adventure #Blow #Wind

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Class #Population #Razors

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Daughter #Mother #Jobs

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Fighting #Reality #Resilience

Tabloid news is tabloid news.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#News #Tabloids

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Miscarriage #Boys #Wade

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Positive #Attitude #Long

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Survivor #Fighter

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Reality #Resilience #Accepting

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Strength #Patience #Able

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Lines #Hoping For The Best #Willing

It's just a part of our nature to hope.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Positive #Meaningful #Hope

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Love #Moving On #Grief

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Husband #Wife #Faithful

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Gay #Thinking #Challenges

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Cancer #Lines

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Cancer #Thinking #Intention

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Resilience #Matter #Miserable

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Thinking #Self #Humans

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Running #People #Brave

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Information #Difficult

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Wings #Giving

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Cancer #Believe #Promise

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered,
-- Elizabeth Edwards

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Choices #Different #Might

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Want #Way #Victim

I hope I have important things to say,
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Important

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Faithful #Being Faithful #Leaving Me

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Real #Shoes #People

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Race

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Differences #Numbers #People

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Father #Years #Two

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Real #Thinking #People

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Nice #Believe #Views

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Parent #Gone

I come out of real life.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Real #Real Life

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Sick

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Mother #Children #Stories

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Jobs #Medicine #Research

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Heart #Grieving #Years

Maybe we all change over time.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Changes Over Time

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Cancer #Shoulders #Shakes

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Community

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Worried

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Girl #Years

I want to reclaim who I am.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Who I Am #Want

I think I did marry a marvelous man.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Men #Thinking

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Parent #Energy #Young

I have a husband who adores me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Husband #Adore

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Writing #Life Is #Bigs

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Politician

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Thinking #Degrees #Want

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Father #Three

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Boys #Offering #Protection

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Replaced

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Matter #Things That Matter

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Gay #Gay Marriage

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Husband #Thinking #Needs

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Had Enough #Enough