Top 40 Rose Kennedy Quotes
#1. Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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#2. Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
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#3. More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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#5. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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#6. 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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#7. It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
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#8. 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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#9. I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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#10. Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment
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#11. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
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#12. 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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#13. Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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#14. The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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#15. I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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#17. 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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#18. I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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#19. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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#20. It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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#21. I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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#23. My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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#24. Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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#25. 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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#26. It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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#27. 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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#28. There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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#32. I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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#36. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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#37. Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
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#38. 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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#39. Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.
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#40. 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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