Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
BARBARA BUSHMy worst expectations never happened.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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’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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My worst expectations never happened.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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But 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?
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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