People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSHGiving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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