Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSHAt 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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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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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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