I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
ROSE KENNEDYI’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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