Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHShow me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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 think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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