62+ Elizabeth Edwards Quotes On Losing A Child, Death And Advocacy

Elizabeth Edwards was an American lawyer and political figure. She was the wife of former U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Elizabeth was an advocate for women's rights, health care reform, and poverty reduction. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Elizabeth Edwards on losing a child, death, advocacy.

Top 10 Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

1. She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
2. This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
3. 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.
4. Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
5. I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
6. If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
7. 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.
8. Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
9. I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
10. My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards Short Quotes

• If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
• I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
• I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
• I want to reclaim who I am.
• I think I did marry a marvelous man.
• I have a husband who adores me.
• I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
• You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
• Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Elizabeth Edwards Quotes About Life

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And, yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. — Elizabeth Edwards

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

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. — Elizabeth Edwards

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter. — Elizabeth Edwards

Almost everybody embraces life. — Elizabeth Edwards

I come out of real life. — Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. — Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards Quotes About Hope

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

I hope I have important things to say. — Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. — Elizabeth Edwards

It's just a part of our nature to hope. — Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards Quotes About Lives

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

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. — Elizabeth Edwards

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population. — Elizabeth Edwards

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. — Elizabeth Edwards

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. — Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift. — Elizabeth Edwards

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before. — Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. — Elizabeth Edwards

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others. — Elizabeth Edwards

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me. — Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that. — Elizabeth Edwards

Maybe we all change over time. — Elizabeth Edwards

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too. — Elizabeth Edwards

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. — Elizabeth Edwards

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. — Elizabeth Edwards

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house. — Elizabeth Edwards

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else. — Elizabeth Edwards

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open. — Elizabeth Edwards

We're all going to die. — Elizabeth Edwards

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over. — Elizabeth Edwards

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me. — Elizabeth Edwards

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up. — Elizabeth Edwards

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it. — Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place. — Elizabeth Edwards

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them? — Elizabeth Edwards

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. — Elizabeth Edwards

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy. — Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent. — Elizabeth Edwards

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

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. — Elizabeth Edwards

Life Lessons by Elizabeth Edwards

1. Elizabeth Edwards taught us that resilience and strength can be found in the face of adversity. She faced her own health struggles with grace and dignity, and her courage in the face of illness was an inspiration to many.
2. Elizabeth Edwards showed us that it is possible to fight for justice and equality while also showing kindness and compassion. She was a tireless advocate for social justice and a passionate defender of human rights.
3. Elizabeth Edwards was a role model for women everywhere, demonstrating that it is possible to pursue a successful career while also being a loving and devoted mother. She was an example of how to balance work and family life with grace and poise.