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.
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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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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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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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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