Eunice Kennedy Shriver quotes

“You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Source : "Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009: She Changed the World for People With Mental Disabilities". learningenglish.voanews.com. August 21, 2009.

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“Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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“In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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“Looks fade. Brains don't.”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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“If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.”
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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“There are no Asian movie stars”

“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”

“Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

“Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed”

“I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.”

Source : Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”