If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
ROSE KENNEDYNow I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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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.
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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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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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When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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