Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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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 personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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