Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reaganwas an American actress and the wife of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth6 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Nancy Reagan quotes about
alzheimers bed patient
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.
dream children heart
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.
losing hopeless bleak
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
home people very-happy
I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
corn-flakes water people
People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.
life-is-precious said stem-cell-research
As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
years library lucky
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.
feminism want ability
Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
cells together-we-can giving
Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
friendship perspective doe
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.
beautiful men common
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.
wise men doors
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.
frills
I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
white house proud
The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.