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.
ROSE KENNEDYNow 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.
ROSE KENNEDYBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDYI’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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 KENNEDYIn the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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?
ROSE KENNEDYIf you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
ROSE KENNEDYMy husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDYI do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDYIt 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.
ROSE KENNEDYIt’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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.
ROSE KENNEDY