Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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