The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSHI hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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. . . 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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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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