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.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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 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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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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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