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.
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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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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.
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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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