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.
BARBARA BUSHI love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH