I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSHLibraries 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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 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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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I don’t like attacking.
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