Rose Kennedy

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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

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

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.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

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 I could bring to it.

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

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 one of the most fortunate people in the world.

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.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

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

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

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.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Im like old wine. They dont bring me out very often but Im well preserved.

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

Life isnt a matter of milestones but of moments.