Nancy Reagan Quotes

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.

Just say no to drugs!

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.