Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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