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.
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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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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’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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Libraries 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.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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Where 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.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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