Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Children Quotes

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

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets... I want to get out of this country.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis