Quotes About Mary Lincoln

#1. Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#2. 'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

Jennifer Chiaverini

#3. My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#4. 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

#5. My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#6. Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: (1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.

Dennis Overbye

#7. The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Michel De Montaigne

#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. (On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.

Lenny Kravitz

#16. The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. 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

#18. I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

Mary Todd

#19. 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

#20. For a brief, silly moment, I think he's going to kiss me, and then he turns and marches through the door.

Dannielle Wicks

#21. In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#22. The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Connie Sellecca

#23. 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

#24. The next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.

Sean Kinney

#25. 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

#26. I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

Julie Klassen

#27. Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#28. Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Ken Wilber

#29. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#30. 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. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

#32. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

William Shakespeare

#33. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

Jerzy Grotowski

#34. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Mary Todd Lincoln