Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSHNancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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 not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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 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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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