You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSHWhatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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