I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
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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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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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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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 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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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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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.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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 have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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