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 KENNEDYMy greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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 looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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