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 BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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