Quotes by Rose Kennedy

About Rose Kennedy:

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. Kennedy, Sr., who was United States Ambassador to the Court of St James's. Their nine children included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Rose Kennedy

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Rose Kennedy

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

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

Rose Kennedy

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Rose Kennedy

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

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

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

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

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

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

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

Rose Kennedy

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

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

Rose Kennedy

Author Bio

  • NameRose Kennedy
  • DescriptionAmerican philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy
  • AliasesRose Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • BornJuly 21, 1890
  • DiedJanuary 22, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America