Best 26 quotes of Ann Richards on MyQuotes

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

July does not a November election make.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.