Quotes of the Day

Monday, Sep. 07, 2009

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  • Richard Lacayo
  • When he buried his nephew, he echoed Yeats' words that a man should "live to comb gray hair." Too many Kennedy men didn't, but Teddy did. In his long life, he carried many burdens — leader of his family, icon of his party, voice of the dispossessed. His death cuts a cord to a shimmery past but leaves a legacy far into the future
| Source: When he buried his nephew, he echoed Yeats' words that a man should "live to comb gray hair." Too many Kennedy men didn't, but Teddy did. In his long life, he carried many burdens — leader of his family, icon of his party, voice of the dispossessed. His death cuts a cord to a shimmery past but leaves a legacy far into the future