I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHGiving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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