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 BUSHI’m tired now of the elections.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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