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Rose Kennedy [1890-1995] American

Rank: 101
Author, Philanthropist

Countess Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist and socialite. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish Catholic community in Boston, where her father was mayor. She was the wife of businessman and investor Joseph P.

Age, Anger, Beauty, Brainy, Business, Death, Faith, Family, Funny, Great, Hope, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Marriage, Mom, Money, Morning, Motivational, Moving On, Nature, Parenting, Respect, Sad, Thankful, Work

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Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.	Life	101
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.	Brainy, Great	102
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.	Learning	103
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.		104
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.	Thankful	105
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.		106
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?	Nature	107
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.	Anger, Morning	108
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.		109
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.	Beauty, Death, Intelligence, Respect	110
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.	Marriage, Money	111
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.	Funny	112
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?	Hope, Mom	113
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.	Family	114
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.	Moving On	115
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.	Age, Motivational	116
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.	Business	117
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.	Parenting	118
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.		119
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.		120
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.		121
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.		122
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.	Faith	123
I am just an old-fashioned girl.		124
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.	Work	125
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.		126
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.		201
No one will ever feel sorry for me.		202
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.		203
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.		204
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.	Sad	205
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.		206
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.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.		210
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.		211
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.		212
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.'		213

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