Top 35 Lady Bird Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

3. “The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

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5. “Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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6. “The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

8. “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.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

9. “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.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

12. “The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

14. “Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!”

— Lady Bird Johnson

15. “There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

16. “Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

17. “How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

18. “While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

19. “My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

20. “Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

21. “When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

22. “We had a delicious dinner of too much.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

23. “The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

25. “For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

27. “I’ve really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don’t sell for what you’re worth unless you look good.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

28. “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.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

29. “Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

30. “I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

31. “Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

32. “It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

33. “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.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

34. “I have learned something about the job of being the President’s wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Lady Bird Johnson