Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHLibraries 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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 First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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 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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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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