I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSHCherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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