Top 41 Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
#1. Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
Stewart Udall
#2. She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.
David Mixner
#3. Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.
David Mixner
#5. Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
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#6. I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
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#7. Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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#9. Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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#11. The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
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#13. When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
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#14. The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.
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#15. Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
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#16. My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
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#17. I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
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#18. Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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#19. A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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#20. There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
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#21. The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
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#23. Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
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#24. I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
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#25. While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
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#26. I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.
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#28. Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
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#29. Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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#30. It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
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#31. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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#32. Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.
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#34. For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
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#35. Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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#37. A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.
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#38. I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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#39. Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
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#40. Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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#41. The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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