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.
ROSE KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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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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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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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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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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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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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