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 BUSHIf you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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