Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards

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The American attorney Elizabeth Edwards is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Elizabeth Edwards's observations on Hope are as sharp as their thoughts on Family, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 39 of Elizabeth Edwards's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Hope, Family, Marriage, Positive, and Time. To get a sense of their style, try: "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."

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“I grew up in a Navy family.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Family

All Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Family

“A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Sad

“I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage

“I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Family

“A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hope

“One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Politics

“It's just a part of our nature to hope.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hope

“I hope I have important things to say.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hope

“Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Health

“Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

History

“But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hope

“You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Alone

“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Faith

“A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Attitude

“I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage

“I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Death

“I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Experience

“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Family

“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Poetry

“We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Family