Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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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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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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.
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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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