My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSHMy worst expectations never happened.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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