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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.

- Rose Kennedy

Mind, Some, Protecting, Heals

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

- Rose Kennedy

Nature, Storm, Why, Remains

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Gift, Rewarding, Which, Motherhood

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

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Adversity, Brainy, Tries, Fortunate

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.

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Another, However, Privileges, Joys

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Envy, Sometimes, About, Ambassador

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

- Rose Kennedy

Candid, Pictures, Like, Unattractive

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.'

- Rose Kennedy

Business, Going, Show, Relations

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Sometimes, Diligently, Whole, Fervently

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

- Rose Kennedy

Mother, Mom, Raising, Aspiration

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

- Rose Kennedy

Funny, Like, Very, Wine

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

Love, Profession, Looked, Fully

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

- Rose Kennedy

Work, Fast, Never, Changed

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

- Rose Kennedy

Beauty, Charm, Wit, Extravagant

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

- Rose Kennedy

Mind, Magic, World, Wherever

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

- Rose Kennedy

Conservative, Been, Raising, Innovator

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

- Rose Kennedy

Faith, Conclusion, Most, Element

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

- Rose Kennedy

Learning, Atmosphere, Nor, Comprehension

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Father, Castle, Still, Candidates

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

- Rose Kennedy

Children, Other, Bury, Parents

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Happy, Destiny, My Life, Reminded

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

Beauty, Death, Gift, Gifts

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

- Rose Kennedy

View, Bad, Like, Dear

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

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Motivational, Defeat, Nor, Weariness

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Other, Had, Frequently, Successful

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.

- Rose Kennedy

Forgive, Will, Joe, Operation

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

Anger, Night, Sure, Anyway

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

- Rose Kennedy

Moving On, Tragedies, Concern

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

Parenting, Year, Your, Meets

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

- Rose Kennedy

Mirror, Will, Come, Disgust

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