It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
ROSE KENNEDYThere’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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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 do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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 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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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’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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 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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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