Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
- Jackie Kennedy
Magic, I Think, Our, Legend
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
- Jackie Kennedy
Want, Like, One Thing, Saddle
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
- Jackie Kennedy
Sad, Overwhelmed, Must, Oneself
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
- Jackie Kennedy
Looks, Been, Furnished, Discount
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
- Jackie Kennedy
Always, Upset, Flies, Jack
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
- Jackie Kennedy
Art, Will, Amount, Jack
I am a woman above everything else.
- Jackie Kennedy
I Am, Woman, Else, Everything Else
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
- Jackie Kennedy
Marriage, Poor Man, I Think, Table
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
- Jackie Kennedy
Camel, Like, Plane, Jet
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
- Jackie Kennedy
Men, Made, Graduated, Harvard
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
- Jackie Kennedy
Living, Understand, Widow, White House
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
- Jackie Kennedy
Love, Mother, Editor, Encouragement
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.
- Jackie Kennedy
Death, Simple, Hold, Simple Person
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
- Jackie Kennedy
Take, Servant, Kennedy, Fitzgerald
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
- Jackie Kennedy
Sex, Bad, Because, Bad Thing
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
- Jackie Kennedy
Want, Given, Maximum, Minimum
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
- Jackie Kennedy
Silly, Some, Communist, Civil Rights
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
- Jackie Kennedy
World, Reporter, Being, Ticket
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
- Jackie Kennedy
Men, Think, Any, Wives
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jackie Kennedy
History, Generation, Going, Families
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
- Jackie Kennedy
College, Newspaper, Always, Reporter
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
- Jackie Kennedy
Love, Marriage, Money, Companionship
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
- Jackie Kennedy
Parenting, Think, Raising, Much
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
- Jackie Kennedy
Me, Only, Routine
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
- Jackie Kennedy
Mother, Wife, Then, Lady
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
- Jackie Kennedy
Politics, How, Been, Republican
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
- Jackie Kennedy
Love, World, Ways, Child
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
- Jackie Kennedy
Family, Gift, Through, Children
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
- Jackie Kennedy
Lunch, Will, Like, Greek
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
- Jackie Kennedy
World, Want, Bed, Kinds
I want to live my life, not record it.
- Jackie Kennedy
Life, My Life, Want, Live
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