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.
BARBARA BUSHPeople who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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