Rose Kennedy Quotes

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Rose Kennedy

Profession : Author

Birth : July 22, 1890

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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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

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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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In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'

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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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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

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No one will ever feel sorry for me.

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

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To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

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It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

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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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Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

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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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