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.
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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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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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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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 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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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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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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 tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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 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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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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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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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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