The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSH
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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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