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.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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.
ROSE KENNEDYWhen 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.
ROSE KENNEDYMoney is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
ROSE KENNEDYI am just an old-fashioned girl.
ROSE KENNEDYAs 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.
ROSE KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
ROSE KENNEDYNow 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYThere’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
ROSE KENNEDYSedentary 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.
ROSE KENNEDYThe time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
ROSE KENNEDYI have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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.
ROSE KENNEDY