Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

About Elizabeth Edwards:

Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee.
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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Elizabeth Edwards

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

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I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

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I grew up in a Navy family.

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Maybe we all change over time.

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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

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I hope I have important things to say.

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It's just a part of our nature to hope.

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What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

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Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Edwards
  • Descriptiondeceased wife of John Edwards
  • AliasesMary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
  • BornJuly 3, 1949
  • DiedDecember 7, 2010
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAttorney At Law; Lawyer; Author; Teacher