Quotes from Shannon Bream

I have gone to White House dinners in a dress that I have bought at Loehmann's.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.

For me, my faith is the most important thing in my life.

Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

It's true that if you love what you do, it rarely feels like work.

I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.

I get calls, emails and get asked in the grocery store when I'm not looking that great... 'I love your hair. Where do you get it done?'

Doctors are wonderful people, but they don't know everything. We're all responsible for our own health, and shouldn't feel guilty if we ask questions or get second opinions.

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.

My background is interesting in that I was a sexual harassment attorney before I ever got into news. I think I had a really broad understanding of exactly how the legal framework works, how HR works, all those kinds of things.

I try to say to myself, this is the season that the Lord has you here. Don't hold too tightly to it because you don't know what other adventures or things are coming down the line and I just try to be open to what the Lord may have next.

From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

Working in local news makes you very self-sufficient, which is a good thing because you know how all the different jobs work. I've worked many of those jobs in the newsroom, from my first job answering the phones and working the prompter, to producing, to being a reporter who does all of those things.

Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of closed them up.

It was love at first sight being in the newsroom.

When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

No matter what your dream job is, you'll likely hear 'no' many times before you achieve your goals. Just accept that as a fact. But by refusing to accept that 'no,' you'll separate yourself from the pack.

Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.

The surface cells on my eyes don't root back into my eyeball like a normal person's do. Instead, they want to pull off. At night, the surface of my eye was actually adhering to my eyelid. Once that happened, any movement would cause a tear and trigger nearly indescribable pain.

I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.