I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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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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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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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 know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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