Top 30 Rose Kennedy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy

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2. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

— Rose Kennedy

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3. “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”

— Rose Kennedy

4. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”

— Rose Kennedy

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5. “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?”

— Rose Kennedy

6. “Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.”

— Rose Kennedy

7. “I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”

— Rose Kennedy

8. “I am just an old-fashioned girl.”

— Rose Kennedy

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

— Rose Kennedy

10. “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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11. “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?”

— Rose Kennedy

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

— Rose Kennedy

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

— Rose Kennedy

14. “There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.”

— Rose Kennedy

15. “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

16. “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.”

— Rose Kennedy

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

— Rose Kennedy

18. “No one will ever feel sorry for me.”

— Rose Kennedy

19. “Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it’s the you inside that counts.”

— Rose Kennedy

20. “It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.”

— Rose Kennedy

21. “I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”

— Rose Kennedy

22. “I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.”

— Rose Kennedy

23. “There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.”

— Rose Kennedy

24. “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

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

— Rose Kennedy

26. “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

27. “I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.”

— Rose Kennedy

28. “The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.”

— Rose Kennedy

29. “I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.”

— Rose Kennedy

30. “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

31. “I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.”

— Rose Kennedy

32. “I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.”

— Rose Kennedy

33. “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

34. “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