What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
ROSE KENNEDYWhat greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
ROSE KENNEDYI’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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 KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDYNo one will ever feel sorry for me.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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 KENNEDYI 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
ROSE KENNEDYThere’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
ROSE KENNEDYMy greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
ROSE KENNEDYBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDYI have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
ROSE KENNEDYMake sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
ROSE KENNEDY