Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
BARBARA BUSHLife has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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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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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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