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.
BARBARA BUSHValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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’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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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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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