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.
BARBARA BUSHShow me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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 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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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 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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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