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 BUSHBut 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?
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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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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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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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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