Rose Kennedy

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“No one will ever feel sorry for me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.”

“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 our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.”