Famous quotes containing the words nancy reagan, nancy, reagan, lady and/or california:
“A woman is like a teabagonly in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
—Nancy Reagan (b. 1923)
“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say ladies and gentlemen, but a lady should say, gentlemen and ladies. You mention your friends name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, ladies and gentlemen. It is a lack of good manners.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they must appear in short clothes or no engagement. Below a Gospel Guide column headed, Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow, was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winneys California Concert Hall, patrons bucked the tiger under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular lady gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)