The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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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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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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH






