Rose Kennedy Quotes
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When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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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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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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 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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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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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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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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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.
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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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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
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