34 quotes
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
One man can make a difference and every man should try.
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983)
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Said days after President Kennedy's assassination (1963)
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.
It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.
On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983)
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.
The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994)
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Welcoming decorator Billy Baldwin to the island of Skorpios; quoted in Ari (1986)
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Advice to her secretary; quoted in The Kennedys (1984)
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
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.
The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.
The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994)
It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.
On her romance with John F. Kennedy quoted in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987)
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.
A Hero for Our Time (1983)
If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country.
After assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)