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 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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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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