81 Quotes by Rose Kennedy

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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