86 Quotes by Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.