. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSHWhere 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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