Ann Romney Quotes
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The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
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My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.
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Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
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My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
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I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
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We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.
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It can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.
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It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
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There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.
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The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.
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I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
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I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!
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You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.
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Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
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Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.
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I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.
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We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
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Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
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When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
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I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
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A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.
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And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.
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I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
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We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?
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You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.
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In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.
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We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
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