At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
BARBARA BUSHIt seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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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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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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