Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSHI’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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At 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.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I don’t like attacking.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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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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