The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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.
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