Zitat des Tages von Rose Kennedy:
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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.
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.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
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.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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.
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.
I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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.
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.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.