You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSHMy worst expectations never happened.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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