What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
ROSE KENNEDYMy father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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 am just an old-fashioned girl.
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When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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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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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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