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 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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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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 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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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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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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