Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHYour 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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 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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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only 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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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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