I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSHYou can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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