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.
BARBARA BUSHNever lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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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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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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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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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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