Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDYAs 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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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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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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