Lady Bird Johnson > Quotes

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“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.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing that all of us share. it is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become...”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“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.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“[O]nce the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once an can no longer walk-through beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.”
― Lady Bird Johnson, Texas - A Roadside View [First Printing Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson]

“Many times I have made a plea to save wildflowers along the fence rows. The sumac, the wild roses, the wisteria, the sunflowers, the gayfeathers stay in the fence rows and can be a nesting spot for quail, rabbits, birds,and other small animals.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“You do what you can where you are. You musn’t feel impotent because you’re not all powerful.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because neighbors are so many”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“When tourism was connected to beautification, with wildflower trails, wildflower festivals, great gardens, we pretty much took the word beauty out of the sole province of the "ladies at a tea party" to the province of the business community.”
― Lady Bird Johnson, Texas - A Roadside View [First Printing Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson]