I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Whether 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.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be 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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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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