Top 72 Quotes About Jackie Kennedy
#1. Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.
Lynda Resnick
#2. The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.
John Waters
#3. I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.
Jonas Mekas
#4. I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
Sandra Bernhard
#5. I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.
Lydia Leonard
#6. On Jackie Kennedy's historic tour of India and Pakistan in 1962, she was photographed wearing sleeveless shifts and knee-length skirts - not to mention a midriff-baring sari that caused an international sensation. Public opinion seemed to have grown more conservative in South Asia since then.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#7. I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
Leonard Cohen
#8. Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.
Carmen Ejogo
#9. A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.
Mario Testino
#10. Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
Pierre Salinger
#11. The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
Jackie Kennedy
#12. Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.
Jackie Kennedy
#13. If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
Jackie Kennedy
#14. In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.
Jackie Kennedy
#15. When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Jackie Kennedy
#17. You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
Jackie Kennedy
#19. The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
Jackie Kennedy
#20. Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy
#21. It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy
#22. The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
#23. Seriously, did I miss something? Did John F. Kennedy walk into the Oval Office one day, only to find Fidel Castro lighting his Cohiba with the American flag while teabagging Jackie?
Sterling Archer
#24. An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy
#25. If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
Jackie Kennedy
#26. Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy
#27. There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy
#28. There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
Jackie Kennedy
#29. I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy
#32. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy
#33. I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire
#35. The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
Jackie Kennedy
#37. I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy
#38. Will I die slain like my King by a terrorist?
Will my woman be Coretta, take my name and cherish it?
Or will she Jackie O., drop the Kennedy, remarry it?
Killer Mike
#39. I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy
#40. One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Jackie Kennedy
#41. If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
Jackie Kennedy
#42. Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy
#43. [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.
Jackie Kennedy
#44. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
Jackie Kennedy
#45. Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it.
Jackie Kennedy
#46. Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
Jackie Speier
#47. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.
Jackie Kennedy
#48. Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy
#49. Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
Jackie Kennedy
#50. underneath the chilly grey november sky
we can make believe that kennedy is still alive and
we're shooting for the moon and smiling,
jackie's driving by and
they say, good try
Andy Prieboy
#51. As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Pierre Salinger
#52. [On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.
Jackie Kennedy
#55. Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy
#56. The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
Jackie Kennedy
#57. You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
Jackie Kennedy
#58. I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy
#59. Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye
Jackie Kennedy
#60. I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.
Jackie Kennedy
#61. A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear
Jackie Kennedy
#62. We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
Jackie Kennedy
#63. I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy
#65. The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy
#66. Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jackie Kennedy
#67. I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
Jackie Kennedy
#68. I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.
Helen Thomas
#69. I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
Jackie Kennedy
#70. Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain't discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.
Kathryn Stockett
#72. You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
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