Rose Kennedy
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Parenting
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.Collection: Moving
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.Collection: Faith
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Death
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.Collection: Business
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Movies
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.Collection: Thankful
In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'Collection: Business
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.Collection: Motivational
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Morning
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?Collection: Nature
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.Collection: Sad
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?Collection: Mom
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.Collection: Age
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.Collection: Learning
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.Collection: Funny
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.Collection: Life
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
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.
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.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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 am just an old-fashioned girl.
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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.
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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.
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Faith
Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.Collection: Strong
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?Collection: Giving
it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.Collection: Determination
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Past
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Money
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?Collection: Adversity
Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.Collection: Memories