The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

For me, wildflowers are joy-giving. They have enriched my life and fed my soul and given beautiful memories to sustain me. Beyond their aesthetic value, there are other valid reasons for their increased use. As we experience problems with lowering water tables and increasing maintenance costs, incorporating nature’s bounty into our landscapes may provide a viable alternative in suitable areas to our concept of manicured clipped grass.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

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.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

I have learned something about the job of being the President’s wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

Once 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.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

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.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

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.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

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.

Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope.

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Encourage & support your kids because “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.

I gave it to myself. It’s given to me by me.

No. I’m just saying that, if you took up close pictures of my vagina while I was on my period, it would be disturbing but it doesn’t make it wrong.

Don’t be republican.

Different things can be sad! It’s not all war!

The government didn’t have to put tracking devices on us. We bought them and put them on ourselves.

The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it’s a palindrome.

It’s not important to be right. It’s only important to be true.

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.

People go by the names their parents give them, but they don’t believe in God.

I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

I hate California, I want to go to the east coast. I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me…beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

I wish I could live through something.

It’s normal to not touch a penis.

Just because something looks ugly doesn’t mean it’s morally wrong.

Money is not life’s report card.