Rose Kennedy
Rose Kennedy
Countess Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedywas an American philanthropist and socialite. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish Catholic community in Boston, where her father was mayor. She was the wife of businessman and investor Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., who was United States Ambassador to the Court of St James's. Their nine children included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy. She was the sixth American woman to be granted the title of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 July 1890
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.
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.
Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment
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.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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.