Christie Brinkley quotes:

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavors. I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans, some days I might have just a salad and have some lentil soup on the side.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

Chiropractic makes me feel a few inches taller each time I come out.

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

I get bored if I do the same thing. The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

The best beauty secret is sunblock.

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

The more you give, the more you get - its a cliche, but its really true.

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.

I don't really seek out vegetarian spots... but mainly, I know how to work a menu no matter where I am.

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.