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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.

Barbara Bush

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

Love Thank Witty You
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
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
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Firsts Important Years
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean
I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH

Action Attacking Like Plan
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
BARBARA BUSH

Congratulations Success Teaching
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Mean People Rights
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
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSH

Blood Inspirational Money
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate

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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