Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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 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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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