You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSHThe winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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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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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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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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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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