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 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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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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.
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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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