Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSHWhatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 little old-fashioned.
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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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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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. . . 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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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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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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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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