What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
ROSE KENNEDYTo my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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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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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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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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.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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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 people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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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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