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.
ROSE KENNEDYBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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 know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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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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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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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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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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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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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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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