Top 50 Ann Romney Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.”

— Ann Romney

2. “Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.”

— Ann Romney

3. “It can be here today and gone tomorrow.”

— Ann Romney

4. “We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other’s burdens, lighten each other’s load.”

— Ann Romney

5. “There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I’ve taken a little bit from both.”

— Ann Romney

6. “Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.”

— Ann Romney

7. “Dreams fulfilled, help others launch new dreams.”

— Ann Romney

8. “Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.”

— Ann Romney

9. “We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers.”

— Ann Romney

10. “How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that’s where my values are and that’s where my riches are.”

— Ann Romney

11. “Motherhood was my career. I’m totally satisfied with that.”

— Ann Romney

12. “You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.”

— Ann Romney

13. “Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I’m determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.”

— Ann Romney

14. “We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.”

— Ann Romney

15. “In marriage, it’s always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.”

— Ann Romney

16. “I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.”

— Ann Romney

17. “The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.”

— Ann Romney

18. “It may look perfect, but that’s one thing I have learned about life is that it isn’t always what it looks.”

— Ann Romney

19. “The thing that’s nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.”

— Ann Romney

20. “We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.”

— Ann Romney

21. “The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.”

— Ann Romney

22. “If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I’d want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.”

— Ann Romney

23. “Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.”

— Ann Romney

24. “I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.”

— Ann Romney

25. “We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?”

— Ann Romney

26. “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.”

— Ann Romney

27. “I know what it’s like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it’s full again. I know what it’s like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.”

— Ann Romney

28. “We need to respect choices that women make.”

— Ann Romney

29. “Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.”

— Ann Romney

30. “I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.”

— Ann Romney

31. “I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a ‘storybook marriage.’ Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.”

— Ann Romney

32. “As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.”

— Ann Romney

33. “It’s the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.”

— Ann Romney

34. “When I was so fatigued that I couldn’t move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”

— Ann Romney

35. “My kids don’t drink and don’t smoke. For me, that’s a great blessing.”

— Ann Romney

36. “I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!”

— Ann Romney

37. “You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, “Is this a good thing to do?” But not, “How is this going to turn out?” That answer you will never get.”

— Ann Romney

38. “I eat as healthy as I can. It is tough.”

— Ann Romney

39. “I’d sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.”

— Ann Romney

40. “Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.”

— Ann Romney

41. “Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.”

— Ann Romney

42. “When you’re used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then – bang – overnight you’re desperately ill, it’s frightening.”

— Ann Romney

43. “My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.”

— Ann Romney

44. “I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.”

— Ann Romney

45. “A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.”

— Ann Romney

46. “Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me – anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS – they come up and hug and cry.”

— Ann Romney

47. “You know how exasperated you can be when you’re the mother of five young boys.”

— Ann Romney

48. “There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it’s like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.”

— Ann Romney

49. “We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.”

— Ann Romney

50. “I know what it’s like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.”

— Ann Romney