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I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
Rose Kennedy
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Rose Kennedy
Age: 104 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 21
Died: 1995
Died: January 22
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Boston
Massachusetts
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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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.
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It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
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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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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.
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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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