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.
BARBARA BUSHI married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I don’t like attacking.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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