If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSHSome people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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.
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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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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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