Rose Kennedy Quotes

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

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

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

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

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

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

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

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.

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'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 as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

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

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