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.
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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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