The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I don’t like attacking.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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