The Prodigal Daughter Quotes
"There can be no greater calling than public service."
"Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent."
"You were born to be a teacher and the Lord’s plan takes us all in its compass; perhaps you will teach someone of destiny."
"It doesn’t matter. At least I know both of you supported me."
"I’m going to marry a man with a very simple name."
"Enough, enough, young lady. You’re worse than a staff sergeant on drill parade."
"You’re so much more beautiful than your photographs."
"You could not leave me if you knew how much I loved you."
"It is because of how much I love you that I must now leave you."
"They have more sports fields than lecture halls."
"No. I am sorry to tell you that Miss Rosnovski's name is not among the list of scholars."
"After twenty-five years I should have remembered that the Woolson is always announced separately at a later day."
"I shall think of you from time to time, my dear, and hope that my father was right about destiny."
"If you entertain a man in your room for tea, at all times the door must be kept ajar, and all four feet must always be touching the floor."
"Not many men can handle that. You frighten them and that's not good for their egos."
"All he said, Mrs. Kane, was 'Tell Jessie I love her.'"
"For hours Florentyna would sit alone in a room full of Richard’s past."
"She began to lose her best staffers, who feared she no longer had the ambition for herself that they had once had for her."
"Florentyna spent a quiet Christmas at the Red House in Boston."
"You must accept the offer, my dear. There is nothing left for you here."
"I wrap myself up in it. Keeps me warm as a hamburger if I stay very still."
"We must remain vigilant in the defense of our people."
"The greatest single achievement of Florentyna’s political career."
"The daughter of an immigrant has found it possible to run for the highest office in the land."
"My fellow Americans, this is the greatest moment in my life."
"I cannot promise I will never lie. We all lie, sometimes to protect a friend or a member of our family."
"I've been preparing for this moment since my eleventh birthday."
"There could be no misunderstanding. Pete Parkin was simply a racist."
"I’ll write what really happened in my memoirs. Only by then who will care?"
"How many Americans could tell you the name of Harry Truman’s Vice President?"
"Florentyna had to admire the way he could make a rhinoceros look thin-skinned."
"She didn’t know what to say to the girl who, puzzled by her signature, asked: 'Which was your last movie?'"
"The press was becoming bored with the petty squabbles between Parkin and Warner."
"The only person of Presidential stature in the whole campaign was turning out to be Senator Kane."
"America always voted Republican until 5 p.m. on Election Day."
"From that time on, working men and women on their way home decide whether to stop at the polls."
"Florentyna remained wide awake throughout the whole proceedings."
"In truth, no one," replied Edward. "How many Americans could tell you the name of Harry Truman’s Vice President?"
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
"Miss Tredgold never had to do seven months of campaigning without a break," she replied.
"If you can wait four years, so can I," she explained.
"The life of the Vice President was, to quote John Nance Garner, 'not worth a pitcher of warm spit.'"
"The closer she got to the top, the more alone she became."