Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
Press conference held at the Grand Central Terminal’s famous Oyster Bar in 1975 in New York City- Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt
- Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin
- Response to Stephen Spender, on being asked what she considered her proudest accomplishment, as quoted in The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 5, and p. 232
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) by Peter Collier and David HorowitzIf you bungle raising your children I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960)- The New York Times (15 September 1960)
