Words matter. These are the best Rose Kennedy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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.
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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.
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.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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.
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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.
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
