Rose Kennedy Quotes

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

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?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

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.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

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.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

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.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

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

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

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

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

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

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

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

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

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

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

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

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.

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.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

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