The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
BARBARA BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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’m tired now of the elections.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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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 don’t like attacking.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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