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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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Rose Kennedy
socialite
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1890 – 1995
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston. Her father, John F. Fitzgerald, served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1892–1894), in the U.S. House of Representatives, and as Mayor of Boston. Her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., chaired the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–1935) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937–1938), and served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1938–1940). Their nine children included United States President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith. In 1951, Rose Kennedy was ennobled by Pope Pius XII, becoming the sixth American woman to be granted the rank of Papal countess.
All Quotes by Rose Kennedy
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I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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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.
— Rose Kennedy
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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
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Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
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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.
— Rose Kennedy
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
— Rose Kennedy
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
— Rose Kennedy
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
— Rose Kennedy
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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.
— Rose Kennedy
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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
— Rose Kennedy
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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
— Rose Kennedy
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
— Rose Kennedy