I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHAnd so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t like attacking.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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