Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSHIf 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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’m tired now of the elections.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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