I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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