Jackie Kennedy Quotes about Children

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Mother, Children, Single Mom

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Powerful, Children, Book

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Jackie Kennedy

Children, Responsibility, Done

You have only one chance to raise your child.

Jackie Kennedy

Children, Chance, Raises

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Jackie Kennedy

Children, Husband, Thinking

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Jackie Kennedy

Children, Growing Up, Men

"Look" Magazine, (JFK memorial issue), November 17, 1964.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Jackie Kennedy

Children, Women, Memorable

"The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Jackie Kennedy

Inspirational, Family, Children

"The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" edited by Bill Adler, 1994.

Jackie Kennedy Quotes about Children

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