I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSHThe Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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 may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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