Alice Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. — Augustus

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done ... — Douglas Hofstadter

Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone's address and a motherf**king stamp! — Lady Gaga

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. — Chris Pine

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself. — Steve McNair

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all. — William E. Rees

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

How come she has more crap here now than when she lived with me? their father grumbled as he came down one morning. — Debra Anastasia

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth — Claudy Conn

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other. — Katharine Graham

The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based. — Niels Bohr

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Holy shit. I forgot to ask you what you do. You are seriously a librarian? You aren't fucking with me?" She made a face. "Yes, I'm really a librarian, MLS degree and all." "Hot damn." He pictured her behind a desk, dressed all prim and proper; her hair bound up in a little bun, black-framed glasses perched on her nose. "Remind me later to have you dress up and ask me about my overdue books. — Cynthia Rayne

You can't make a souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both. — Theodore Roosevelt

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough. — Tony Blair

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When he arrived, he found that the two most important women in his life - his mother and his young wife - were dying. At 3:00 a.m. on February 14, Valentine's Day, Martha Roosevelt, still a vibrant, dark-haired Southern belle at forty-six, died of typhoid fever. Eleven hours later, her daughter-in-law, Alice Lee Roosevelt, who had given birth to Theodore's first child just two days before, succumbed to Bright's disease, a kidney disorder. That night, in his diary, Roosevelt marked the date with a large black "X" and a single anguished entry: "The light has gone out of my life. — Candice Millard

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. — Teresa Of Avila

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high. — Fernando Torres

You can't make souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies
the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus. — T. Berry Brazelton

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city — Janet Frame

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable. — Katharine Graham

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth