50+ Rose Kennedy Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Responsibility Thinking Time Yourself
It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDY

Children Parents Wrong
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
ROSE KENNEDY

Determination Pain Tears
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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Deep Life Moments
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Forgiveness Himself Myself
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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Attraction Myself Photograph
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
ROSE KENNEDY

Faith Human Important Life Myself Philosophy
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Business Change Husband Job Myself Simplicity
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY

Business Himself Job Myself Simplicity
As 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.
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Born Career Greatness Ideal Mom Reward Woman
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
ROSE KENNEDY

Excitement Love Marriage Money Myself Time
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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Magic Mindset Myself Oneself World
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDY

Children Parents Wrong
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
ROSE KENNEDY

Challenge Children Greatness Hope Mom
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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Deep Oppression
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDY

Goodness Myself Thinking Yourself
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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Defeat Myself
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
ROSE KENNEDY

Feeling Myself Oneself
Modern 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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Father Home Live Politics Time
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDY

Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
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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Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
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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Argument Lose Morning Night Yourself
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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Greatness Life Myself Regret Sadness

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