Elizabeth Edwards Quotes & Sayings

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. — Elizabeth Edwards

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before. — Elizabeth Edwards

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life. — Elizabeth Edwards

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. — Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. — Elizabeth Edwards

I hope I have important things to say. — Elizabeth Edwards

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name. — Elizabeth Edwards

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up. — Elizabeth Edwards

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others. — Elizabeth Edwards

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally. — Elizabeth Edwards

Concentrate on the things that matter to you. — Elizabeth Edwards

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. — Elizabeth Edwards

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black. — Elizabeth Edwards

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. — Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news. — Elizabeth Edwards

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. — Elizabeth Edwards

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable. — Elizabeth Edwards

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population. — Elizabeth Edwards

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. — Elizabeth Edwards

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. — Elizabeth Edwards

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me. — Elizabeth Edwards

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting. — Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. — Elizabeth Edwards

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. — Elizabeth Edwards

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. — Elizabeth Edwards

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. — Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it. — Elizabeth Edwards

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do. — Elizabeth Edwards

I loved campaigning. — Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one. — Elizabeth Edwards

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine. — Elizabeth Edwards

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too. — Elizabeth Edwards

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. — Elizabeth Edwards

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way. — Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you. — Elizabeth Edwards

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. — Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage. — Elizabeth Edwards

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick. — Elizabeth Edwards

Nothing ever stay the same — Elizabeth Edwards

My father had gone to Vietnam. — Elizabeth Edwards

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me. — Elizabeth Edwards

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. — Elizabeth Edwards

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. — Elizabeth Edwards

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis. — Elizabeth Edwards

I want to reclaim who I am. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent. — Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. — Elizabeth Edwards

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose. — Elizabeth Edwards

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy. — Elizabeth Edwards

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. — Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. — Elizabeth Edwards

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not just a cuckolded wife. — Elizabeth Edwards

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're ... sometimes ... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. — Elizabeth Edwards

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. — Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. — Elizabeth Edwards

She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record. — Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you. — Elizabeth Edwards

The military is already sexually integrated. — Elizabeth Edwards

All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. — Elizabeth Edwards

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city - we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight. — Elizabeth Edwards

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. — Elizabeth Edwards

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. — Elizabeth Edwards

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. — Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. — Elizabeth Edwards

I come out of real life. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have a husband who adores me. — Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that. — Elizabeth Edwards

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else. — Elizabeth Edwards

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them? — Elizabeth Edwards

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me. — Elizabeth Edwards

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm a puzzle doer. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning. — Elizabeth Edwards

We're all going to die. — Elizabeth Edwards

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful. — Elizabeth Edwards

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over. — Elizabeth Edwards

Maybe we all change over time. — Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place. — Elizabeth Edwards

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. — Elizabeth Edwards

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me. — Elizabeth Edwards

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. — Elizabeth Edwards

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. — Elizabeth Edwards

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. — Elizabeth Edwards

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced. — Elizabeth Edwards

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me? — Elizabeth Edwards

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. — Elizabeth Edwards