Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963)

God

“The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

On tabloid stories, as quoted in Newsweek (30 August 1994)

“The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

Life

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Attributed in Wisdom Through the Ages : Book Two (2003) by Helen Granat, p. 118; this actually is cited to Robert Louis Stevenson in The Law of Success (1928) by Napoleon Hill: "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself."
Misattributed

Life

“If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960) https://web.archive.org/web/20140127091759/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/joint/joint011060_nbctv03.html

Mother's Day , For Mother , Children , Thinking

“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”

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Quoted from article written by Jacqueline Kennedy for Look Magazine (17 November 1964) JFK memorial issue.

Children , Thinking

“I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of messages, nearly eight hundred thousand in all, which my children and I have received over the past few weeks. The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me and the warmth of these tributes is something I shall never forget. Whenever I can bear to, I read them. All his bright light’s gone from the world. All of you who have written to me know how much we all loved him and that he returned that love in full measure.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Televised appearance (14 January 1964) https://preview-archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=68446

Love , Children , World , Knowledge

“The ring was all blood-stained… so I put the ring on Jack's finger… and then I kissed his hand…”

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The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Kiss

“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.”

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To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester

“You know that anything -- Stas will take little Bobby to Africa -- I'll take them around the world + to the moon + back -- anything to help you + them now and always.”

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Undated letter to Ethel Kennedy following RFK's assassination, as quoted in "FBI seizes letter from Jackie Kennedy to RFK's widow" http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/14/texas.kennedy.letter/index.html (14 September 2009)

World , Help

“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

On a 1962 visit to India quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

Feeling

“Do you know what I think of history? … For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so… No one'll ever know everything about Jack. But … history made Jack what he was … this lonely, little sick boy … scarlet fever … this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history … reading the Knights of the Round Table … and he just liked that last song.
Then I thought, for Jack history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way, if it made him see the heroes, maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad … He was such a simple man. But he was so complex, too. Jack had this hero idea of history, the idealistic view, but then he had that other side, the pragmatic side… his friends were all his old friends; he loved his Irish Mafia.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Love , Men , Way , History

“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

Children , World , Family , Faith

“There'd been the biggest motorcade from the airport. Hot. Wild. Like Mexico and Vienna. The sun was so strong in our faces. I couldn't put on sunglasses… Then we saw this tunnel ahead, I thought it would be cool in the tunnel, I thought if you were on the left the sun wouldn't get into your eyes…”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Strong , Sun

“All these people come to see the White House and they see practically nothing that dates back before 1948. Every boy who comes here should see things that develop his sense of history. For the girls, the house should look beautiful and lived-in. They should see what a fire in the fireplace and pretty flowers can do for a house; the White House rooms should give them a sense of all that. Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to "redecorate" it -- a word I hate. It must be restored -- and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.”

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Interview with Hugh Sidey, according to Kennedy Library https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Jacqueline-Kennedy-in-the-White-House.aspx (1 September 1961)

Hate , People , Beauty , History

“His head was so beautiful. I tried to hold the top of his head down, maybe I could keep it in… but I knew he was dead.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Beauty , Dead

“If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets … I want to get out of this country.”

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After assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html?pagewanted=all

Children , Country

“I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Time

“Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.”

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Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

Horse , Summer