I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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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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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH






