Jackie Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

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. — Jackie Kennedy

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

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot. — Jackie Kennedy

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it. — Jackie Kennedy

[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. — Jackie Kennedy

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. — Jackie Kennedy

I am happiest when I am alone. — Jackie Kennedy

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

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. — Jackie Kennedy

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me. — Jackie Kennedy

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. — Jackie Kennedy

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

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

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. — Jackie Kennedy

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

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? — Jackie Kennedy

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

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. — Jackie Kennedy

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. — Jackie Kennedy

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. — Jackie Kennedy

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

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? — Jackie Kennedy

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

A newspaper reported that I spent $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 — Jackie Kennedy

Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it. — Jackie Kennedy

Pearls are always appropriate. — Jackie Kennedy

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

You have only one chance to raise your child. — Jackie Kennedy

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. — Jackie Kennedy

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress. — Jackie Kennedy

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself — Jackie Kennedy

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

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that. — Jackie Kennedy

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? — Jackie Kennedy

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

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy

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

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. — Jackie Kennedy

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree. — Jackie Kennedy

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

Love of books is the best of all. — Jackie Kennedy

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world. — Jackie Kennedy

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection. — Jackie Kennedy

What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. — Jackie Kennedy

The only routine with me is no routine at all. — Jackie Kennedy

History
its what those bitter old men write. — Jackie Kennedy

One should always dress like a marble column. — Jackie Kennedy

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. — Jackie Kennedy

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

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. — Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. — Jackie Kennedy

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

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. — Jackie Kennedy

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

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. — Jackie Kennedy

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. — Jackie Kennedy