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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

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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Faith
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Friendships

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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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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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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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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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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 a little old-fashioned.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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