Rose Kennedy

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.

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

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

Rose Kennedy

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.

Rose Kennedy

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

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.

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

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

Rose Kennedy

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.

Rose Kennedy

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.

Rose Kennedy