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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce
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Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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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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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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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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 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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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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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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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