Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Children, Optimism
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Politics
Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Letters
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Snow
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Media
Ugliness creates bitterness. Ugliness is an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try to change that.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Beauty
Making a town more beautiful and more human can lessen tensions and friction. Any city can do it; and any city would do well to do it.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Wilderness
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Freedom
Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman—it just makes you look better to have a little color.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Wilderness
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Focus, Fear, Concentration, Anxiety
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Topics: Flowers, Gardening
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