Ethel Kennedy quotes

Ethel Kennedy quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.”
-- Ethel Kennedy

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“So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.”
-- Ethel Kennedy

Source : "'Ethel' review: Extraordinary Kennedy" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2012.

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“If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.”
-- Ethel Kennedy

#Speak Quotes

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
“There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.”

Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”
“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India
“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”

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