Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Quotes about children

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Explore interesting quotes on children.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: 100   quotes 3   likes

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

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960) https://web.archive.org/web/20140127091759/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/joint/joint011060_nbctv03.html

Mother's Day , For Mother , Children , 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.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Quoted from article written by Jacqueline Kennedy for Look Magazine (17 November 1964) JFK memorial issue.

Children , Thinking

“I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of messages, nearly eight hundred thousand in all, which my children and I have received over the past few weeks. The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me and the warmth of these tributes is something I shall never forget. Whenever I can bear to, I read them. All his bright light’s gone from the world. All of you who have written to me know how much we all loved him and that he returned that love in full measure.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Televised appearance (14 January 1964) https://preview-archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=68446

Love , Children , World , Knowledge

“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

The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

Children , World , Family , Faith

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

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

After assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html?pagewanted=all

Children , Country

“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

Quoted in The Last Word (1992) edited by Carolyn Warner

Women , Children , Sadness , Family