Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 19 Michelle Obama quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Michelle Obama Quotes
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes. I’ve been to fund-raisers in private homes that look more like art museums, houses where people own bathtubs made from gemstones. I’ve visited families who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and were tearful and grateful just to have a working refrigerator and stove. I’ve encountered people I find to be shallow and hypocritical and others – teachers and military spouses and so many more – whose spirits are so deep and strong it’s astonishing. And I’ve met kids – lots of them, all over the world – who crack me up and fill me with hope and who blessedly manage to forget about my title once we start rooting around in the dirt of a garden.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I understand now that even a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately – even alone.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I was someone who liked things to be neat and planned in advance, and from what I could tell, there seemed to be nothing especially neat about a life in politics.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
There is no handbook for incoming First Ladies of the United States. It’s not technically a job, nor is it an official government title. It comes with no salary and no spelled-out set of obligations. It’s a strange kind of sidecar to the presidency, a seat that by the time I came to it had already been occupied by more than forty-three different women, each of whom had done it in her own way.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
Progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
Life with Barack would never be dull. I knew it even then. It would be some version of banana yellow and slightly hair-raising. It occurred to me, too, that quite possibly the man would never make any money.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I didn’t much appreciate politicians and therefore didn’t relish the idea of my husband becoming one. Most of what I knew about state politics came from what I read in the newspaper, and none of it seemed especially good or productive.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
This I know for sure about my husband: You don’t dangle an opportunity in front of him, something that could give him a wider field of impact, and expect him just to walk away. Because he doesn’t. He won’t.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I was humbled and excited to be First Lady, but not for one second did I think I’d be sliding into some glamorous, easy role. Nobody who has the words “first” and “black” attached to them ever would. I stood at the foot of the mountain, knowing I’d need to climb my way into favor.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
America is not a simple place. Its contradictions set me spinning.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
My father, Fraser, taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word. My mother, Marian, showed me how to think for myself and to use my voice. Together, in our cramped apartment on the South Side of Chicago, they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Even when it’s not pretty or perfect. Even when it’s more real than you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
I was a lawyer, and lawyers worked. We worked all the time. We were only as good as the hours we billed.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
My husband’s career had allowed me to witness the machinations of politics and power up close. I’d seen how just a handful of votes in every precinct could mean the difference not just between one candidate and another but between one value system and the next.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
The White House is a remarkably beautiful and comfortable place, a kind of fortress disguised as a home.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
When you’re married to the president, you come to understand quickly that the world brims with chaos, that disasters unfurl without notice. Forces seen and unseen stand ready to tear into whatever calm you might feel.
from Becoming book by Michelle Obama