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241 First Lady Quotes

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

By-Product A Goal Happiness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Anyway Criticized Feel Heart
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Afraid Care Does Fear
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Admire Admires Knowing Length
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Be The First First First Step I Think
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

More Need Vacation Vocation
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Alive Back Curiosity His
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Character Criterion Man Only
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Housekeeping Little Little Things Practical
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Beware Blows Come Easy
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

About Believe Enough Must
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Understanding is a two-way street.

Street Two Way Two Way Street Understanding
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Always Back Behavior Campaign
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Cannot Effect Force Hate
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Anything Battle Countenance Individual
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Clear Could Country He
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Accomplishments Along Came Did
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Any Anyone Arrangement Domination
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Education Giving Itself Love
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Consent Feel Inferior Make
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Ask Birth Child Could
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Accept According Change Done Fast
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Lay Mankind Ourselves Out
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Any Attention Bound Care
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Could Hands Husbands Men
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Call Like Little Looking
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Arbitrary Broken Hard Liable
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Heroes Learned Mean Philosophers
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Am Convinced Creature Cries
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Afraid Been Daughters Eve
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Call Experience Fruit Great
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Action Any Begin Believe
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
Call Great Necessities Out
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Actions Correspond Few Many
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Always Conflicting Directly Entertain
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Ardor Attained Chance Diligence
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At least we all have HIV AIDS except that some of us are negative and some of us are positive.

HIV AIDS Positive Negative
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Na only you waka come.

Na Waka You
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Wetin him (Buhari) dey find again? Him dey drag with him pickin mate. Old man wey no get brain, him brain don die pata pata

Wetin Buhari Pikin Mate
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