Quotes from Lady Bird Johnson

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

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

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

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

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

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.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

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

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

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

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

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

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

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

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

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.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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

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