I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSHPeople who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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. . . 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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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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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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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 not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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