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 KENNEDYMake sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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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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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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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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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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 selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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