Rose Kennedy quotes

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

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

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

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

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.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.