You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSHBelieve in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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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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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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