I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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Now 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.
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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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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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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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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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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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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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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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