Caroline Kennedy Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.”

“Change isn't easy, it takes time.”

“Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.”

“I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.”

“There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.”

“I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.”

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”

“Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.”

“In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.”

“The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.”