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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.

Rose Kennedy

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
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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Challenge Children Greatness Hope Mom
There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Argument Bad Myself View
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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Beautiful Father Grace Myself
It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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Freedom Money Ourselves
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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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
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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Best Challenge Children Love Myself World
In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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Confidence Mad Walk World
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Inspirational Sing Storm
Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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Fortune Greatness Inspirational Prosperity
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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Attraction Myself Photograph
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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Husband Life Myself Quite Success Travel
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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Responsibility Thinking Time Yourself
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.
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Forgiveness Himself Myself
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Feeling Myself Oneself
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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Father Greatness Innovation Life Myself
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
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 Morning Night Yourself
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Oneself Tragedy
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Determination Pain Tears
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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Father Home Live Politics Time
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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Joy Life Myself Philosophy Priviledge
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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Death Human Important Life Myself Philoopshy
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Believe Carry God Himself Myself Sadness Storm
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Feeling Freedom People Sing Storm Sun
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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Lose Philosophy Possible Yourself
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’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.

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