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.
BARBARA BUSHThe Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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