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 KENNEDYMoney is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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 have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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.
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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 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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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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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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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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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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