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.
ROSE KENNEDYNow 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.
ROSE KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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 KENNEDYModern 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.
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 KENNEDYMy father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
ROSE KENNEDYNo one will ever feel sorry for me.
ROSE KENNEDYIf you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
ROSE KENNEDYI don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDYMoney is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
ROSE KENNEDYI do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
ROSE KENNEDYAny woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
ROSE KENNEDYI have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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 KENNEDY