People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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