My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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. . . 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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