C. Elizabeth Quotes
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.
People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.
What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.