Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
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Where flowers bloom so does hope.
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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
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I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.
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The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
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I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
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The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.
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Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
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I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.
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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.
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Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
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We had a delicious dinner of too much.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
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A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.
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Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
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How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Lady Bird Johnson
- Born: December 22, 1912
- Died: July 11, 2007
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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