It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
ROSE KENNEDYMoney doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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.
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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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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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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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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’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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