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.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH