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 BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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’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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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