Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSHValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 taking a vow not to advise.
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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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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