I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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Money 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.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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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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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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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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