The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSHThe Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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