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 BUSHThere are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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