I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost. Ann Richards More Quotes by Ann Richards More Quotes From Ann Richards There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality. Ann Richards texas special two We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. Ann Richards running order reality One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing. Ann Richards valuable lessons mistake Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected. Ann Richards causes numbers needs A road to a friend's house is never long. Ann Richards wise friendship long 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. Ann Richards expectations mother nurse 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. Ann Richards sister eggs morning I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back. Ann Richards strong feelings looks I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. Ann Richards hurt funny-friend friendship Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. Ann Richards teaching memorable education If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill. Ann Richards bills ifs 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 Ann Richards airplane talking children I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. Ann Richards texan size texas Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does. Ann Richards mediocrity family doe 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. Ann Richards fathers-day dad college I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know. Ann Richards not-afraid government needs 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. Ann Richards doctors responsibility people Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. Ann Richards politics mouths feet 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. Ann Richards sadness grief thinking 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. Ann Richards cells baseball fun
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