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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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