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Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSH

Political Powerful Thinking
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Blue Mind Waste
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH

Feel Gender Made
I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy Thinking
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSH

Ark Built Volunteer
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Love Marriage
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSH

People Worry Writing
One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Boredom Jobs May
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 BUSH

Done Library Thinking

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