I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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 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 have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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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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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