It 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 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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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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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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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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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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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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