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Barbara Bush Inspirational Quotes (49)

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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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'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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
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I'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.
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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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. . . 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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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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