You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSHLife has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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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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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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