Rose Kennedy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Time #Pain #Get Well
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Inspirational #Life #Change
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Strong #Philosophy #Happy Life
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
-- Rose Kennedy

#Inspirational #Happiness #Nature
it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Determination #Pain #Tears
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Baby #Responsibility #Parenting
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Children #Length Of Life #Political
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Children #Women #Parenting
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Past #Thinking #Trying
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Children #Broken Spirit #Risk
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Money #Helping Others #Opportunity
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
-- Rose Kennedy

#Adversity #Bird #Singing
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Good Morning #Marriage #Good Night
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
-- Rose Kennedy

#Daughter #Mother #Son
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Age #Defeat #Knows
Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Memories #Inspirational Life #Matter
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Adversity #Trying #Prosperity
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.
-- Rose Kennedy

#People #Simplicity #Remember
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
-- Rose Kennedy

#United States #Oppression #Consent
I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Thinking #Doing Good
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Business #Educational #Reality
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
-- Rose Kennedy

#Children #Parent #Way

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