Barbara Bush Quotes
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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.
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