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.
BARBARA BUSHAt the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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’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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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