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.
BARBARA BUSHSome people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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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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