Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSHWhether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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