Quotes from Rose Kennedy

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.

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

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.

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 not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity — a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

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.

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.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

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

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