Quotes About Alice Roosevelt

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

Claudy Conn

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#6. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#7. Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm - like a regular human - and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air.

Rick Riordan

#8. You can't make souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#9. I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#10. Everyone leaves, in the end.

Tara Sim

#11. You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#12. I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#13. At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#14. My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

Rush Limbaugh

#15. I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#16. He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#17. [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

#18. I don't go clubing. So, I don't smoke or drink.

Ashley Tisdale

#19. Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

Bayard Rustin

#20. Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#21. If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#22. It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek ... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Troy Polamalu

#23. Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#24. My specialty is detached malevolence.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#25. Let the summer passes quickly and let the winter comes slowly and so we may have longer autumn, The Golden Kingdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#27. Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

George A. Sheehan

#28. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#29. I will even be able to free it from the power of gravity which attracts it to the future and to make it go back into the past.

Rene Barjavel

#30. No wonder Gran had managed to run a brewery with such success for the past twenty-two years. She was a Machiavelli in skirts.

Sabrina Jeffries

#31. You look so fucking perfect under me.

Christina Lauren

#32. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#33. I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#34. If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#35. [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

#36. If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Ray Davies

#37. I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth