My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
ROSE KENNEDYModern 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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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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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 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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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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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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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