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.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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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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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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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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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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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