The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
BARBARA BUSHYou try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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