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" It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around. "
Rose Kennedy
Parents
Children
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" Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? "
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" 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. "
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" What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? "
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" No one will ever feel sorry for me. "
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" I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life. "
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