Rose Kennedy Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
• Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
• I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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.…
• There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
• 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…
• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
• Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of 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.
• What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
• I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
• 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…

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