Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
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You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
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If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
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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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We're all going to die.
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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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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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.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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Almost everybody embraces life.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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Elizabeth Edwards
- Born: July 3, 1949
- Died: December 7, 2010
- Occupation: Attorneys in the United States
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