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.
ROSE KENNEDYWhat greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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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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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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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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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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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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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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