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.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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