I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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 come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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 husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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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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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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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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