Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

“Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it ... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I am a woman above everything else.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“I want to live my life, not record it.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn't God understand that I just want to be with him?”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“On a potential husband, All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“When I go down by the sandy shore
I can think of nothing I want more
Than to live by the booming sea
As the seagulls flutter round about me
I can run about
when the tide is out
With the wind and the sand and the sea all about
And the seagulls are swirling and diving for fish
Oh-to live by the sea is my only wish.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Everything from Colette to Kerouac.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis