Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSHMy worst expectations never happened.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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