Rose Kennedy Quotes

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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.

~ Rose Kennedy

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

~ Rose Kennedy

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.

~ Rose Kennedy

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

~ Rose Kennedy

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.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Rose Kennedy