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 KENNEDYIt 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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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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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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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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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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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