It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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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Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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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 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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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 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 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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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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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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 just an old-fashioned girl.
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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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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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