I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDYWhen you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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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 know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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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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