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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.

Barbara Bush

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

Boys Handful Trust Me
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSH

Good Judgement Luck People
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSH

People Worry Writing
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
BARBARA BUSH

Car Pool Track
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 BUSH

Congratulations Success Teaching
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH

Feel Gender Made
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing

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