The best Quotes by Jackie Kennedy

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

People gather by the thousands to witness the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As the motorcade makes its way down Pennsylvania Avenue, they hope to catch a glimpse of First Lady Jackie Kennedy in a dress by designer Oleg Cassini and a simple, yet elegant pillbox by hatmaker Mr. Halston.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

If anybody really wants to shoot the President of the United States, it is not a very difficult job - all one has to do is get a high building some day with a telescopic rifle, and there is nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt on the President's life.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

I think once you call yourself a genius, you stop growing.

Halston: "Some models just wear clothes. Elsa, she makes them her own."
Ed: "I thought Liza was your muse?"
Halston: "Well, you can't have too many muses."

Or someone might say, "Lisa, what a nice hat you have on." And I'll say, "Thank you very much, but my name is Liza. And that's my hair."

Joe: "That collection you did for Bergdorf's? Looked like cement. Nobody wanted 'em."
Halston: "Nobody understood them."
Joe: "You don't want to understand a dress. You want to love it."

Halston: "I'm gonna do what Ralph Lifshitz did, only bigger."
Ed: "Why don't I know this name?"
Halston: "Because he changed his last name to f*cking 'Lauren'."

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife".

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

You are only as good as the people you dress.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Money makes the world go round.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.