Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

We have known so much & shared & lost so much together—Even if it isn’t the way you wish now—I hope that bond of love and pain will never be cut.

You know that anything -- Stas will take little Bobby to Africa -- I'll take them around the world + to the moon + back -- anything to help you + them now and always.

No one in the world could have ever been like you were yesterday -- except maybe Bobby -- We are going home now -- Your phone was busy.

You and he were adversaries, but you were allied in a determination that the world should not be blown up. The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men as by the little ones. While big men know the need for self-control and restraint, little men are sometimes moved more by fear and pride.

The deep desire to inspire people, to take an active part in the life of the country … attracts our best people to political life … We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. We owe that to our country.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.

The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.

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.

To think that I very nearly didn’t go... What if I’d been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?

They’re stealing our sky!

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.