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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.

Rose Kennedy

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDY

Children Parents Wrong
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Beauty Children Friendship Gift God Inspirational Intelligence Life Myself Philosophy Respect Spirit
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Born Career Greatness Ideal Mom Reward Woman
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
ROSE KENNEDY

Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDY

Goodness Myself Thinking Yourself
Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
ROSE KENNEDY

Greatness Life Live Money People Simplicity
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY

Business Himself Job Myself Simplicity
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
ROSE KENNEDY

Learning Mental Place
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
ROSE KENNEDY

Determination Pain Tears
I 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 KENNEDY

Believe Carry God Himself Myself Sadness Storm
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
ROSE KENNEDY

Hate Time Yourself
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDY

Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
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 KENNEDY

Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
ROSE KENNEDY

Greatness Life Myself Regret Sadness
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
ROSE KENNEDY

Magic Mindset Myself Oneself World
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
ROSE KENNEDY

Feeling Myself Oneself

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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