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.
BARBARA BUSHThe winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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