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.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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