The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSHI think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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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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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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