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 KENNEDYIf you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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