It is Presidents’ Day in our country which falls around Washington’s (2/19) and Lincoln’s (2/12) birthdays every year.
We love good quotes that inspire our own thoughts towards our spouse. And here are some excellent words penned by various presidents throughout our nation’s history. (All photos are from Unsplash, via the Library of Congress)
“Coming home to Nancy was like coming out of the cold into a warm room with a fireplace.” 🔥
“I more than love you, I’m not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I’m waiting for you to return so I can start living again.”
Ronald Reagan
“She had golden curls and has, to this day, the most beautiful blue eyes. We went to Sunday school, public school from the fifth grade through high school, graduated in the same class and marched down life’s road together. For me, she still has the blue eyes and golden hair of yesteryear.”
Harry Truman
“He was fascinated by her intelligence: They read together, painted together, enjoyed good conversation together and walks together.”
Ted Kennedy, about John, his brother and his wife, Jackie
“You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.”
Woodrow Wilson
“Sweetest little wife, I think all the time of my little laughing, teazing beauty, and how pretty she is, and how she goes to sleep in my arms, and I could almost cry I love you so.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Will you marry me? Whoops. I forgot you did that 49 years ago today. I was very happy on that day in 1945, but I’m even happier today. You give me joy that few men know. I’ve climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world, but even that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara’s husband.”
George H. W. Bush
“…I go fully trusting in that Providence, which has been more bountiful to me than I deserve, & in full confidence of a happy meeting with you sometime in the Fall—I have not time to add more, as I am surrounded with Company to take leave of me—I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change…”
George Washington
How would you describe your spouse to others?
In our marriage small groups through the years, Tom will often have each one write a paragraph introducing their spouse as the main speaker at a large conference.
At first everyone freezes at the thought, searching for what to say. But more times than not, the most beautiful words are shared in the group that leaves the receiving spouse in tears and blessed.
Why do we rely on Hallmark to say our heartfelt words?
It is better by far to slow down and pen our own words of affection. And most likely they will be remembered for a lifetime.!
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