81 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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