Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHIf more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH






