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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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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My worst expectations never happened.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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