I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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