I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSHWell, 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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’m taking a vow not to advise.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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.
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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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