Best 63 quotes of Jackie Kennedy on MyQuotes

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Love of books is the best of all.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

One should always dress like a marble column.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

Pearls are always appropriate.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.