Rose Kennedy Quotes

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Rose Kennedy

Profession : Author

Birth : July 22, 1890

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Rose Kennedy

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

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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've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

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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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It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

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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. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

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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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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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I am just an old-fashioned girl.

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It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

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