Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

I want to be there when he dies.

All these people come to see the White House and they see practically nothing that dates back before 1948. Every boy who comes here should see things that develop his sense of history. For the girls, the house should look beautiful and lived-in. They should see what a fire in the fireplace and pretty flowers can do for a house; the White House rooms should give them a sense of all that. Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to "redecorate" it -- a word I hate. It must be restored -- and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person — starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them — and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell — so looking at it that [way] I guess I'm not in love with you.

I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.