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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment
Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
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.
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.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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.
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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.
In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.