What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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 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’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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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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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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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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