Top 32 Mary Todd Quotes
#1. You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor
Mary Todd
#3. Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
Sally Field
#4. The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Jonah Goldberg
#5. I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.
Joan Lingard
#6. Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#7. Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#8. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#9. I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.
Theresa May
#10. Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
Mary Todd Lincoln
#11. God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
Pope Pius XII
#12. If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#13. No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#14. Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#15. You can't do anything about yesterday tomorrow
Manny Trillo
#16. I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#17. Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#19. I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.
Todd Haynes
#20. My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#21. My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#22. What are you reading?" " 'Ryder' by Greta Maloney," he said, closing the book and placing it back into his rucksack. "Any good?" I asked, wanting to find another subject to talk about other than my nightmare. "It's creepy," he smiled at me.
Tim O'Rourke
#23. If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.
Bill Johnson
#24. I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May
#25. In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#26. I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#27. Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#28. There is an extent of riches, as well as an extreme of poverty, which, by harrowing the circles of a man's acquaintance, lessens his opportunities of general knowledge.
Howard Zinn
#29. I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#31. What part did she give you?" Zoe asked her mother.
"Mary, the mother of God."
"Talk about miscasting," Nelia said.
Pamela Todd
#32. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
Mary Todd Lincoln
