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.
ROSE KENNEDYI don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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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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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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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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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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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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’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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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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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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