I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYAny woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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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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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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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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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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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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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 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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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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