Emma Lazarus Quotes
American - Poet July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Emma Lazarus

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
Emma Lazarus

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Emma Lazarus

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
Emma Lazarus

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus



Rose Kennedy Quotes
American - Author July 22, 1890 - January 22, 1995


Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Kennedy

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.
Rose Kennedy

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
Rose Kennedy
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy

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

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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

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.
Rose Kennedy

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

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

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Rose Kennedy

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Rose Kennedy

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Rose Kennedy

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
Rose Kennedy

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
Rose Kennedy

No one will ever feel sorry for me.
Rose Kennedy

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
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

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
Rose Kennedy

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
Rose Kennedy

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

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
Rose Kennedy

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.
Rose Kennedy

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.
Rose Kennedy

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
Rose Kennedy

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

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Rose Kennedy

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

I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.
Rose Kennedy

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.
Rose Kennedy

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.'
Rose Kennedy