It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right. Ann Romney More Quotes by Ann Romney More Quotes From Ann Romney How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches. Ann Romney riches care people When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening. Ann Romney bangs healthy strong Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research. Ann Romney differences heart people You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life. Ann Romney decision president looks I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney dad jobs kids I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work. Ann Romney hard-work home believe We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow. Ann Romney gone today interesting The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby. Ann Romney nice pregnancy baby Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry. Ann Romney hug cry people I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. Ann Romney choices kids people I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. Ann Romney cancer winter boys As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it. Ann Romney built partners journey We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load. Ann Romney load burden needs I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish. Ann Romney important religious thinking We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers. Ann Romney smart dumb answers You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get. Ann Romney good-things ends answers This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams. Ann Romney helping-others dream helping They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. Ann Romney byu jobs years A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage. Ann Romney romney real Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. Ann Romney privilege political talking
