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.
BARBARA BUSHWhere 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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 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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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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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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