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Raising George Walker was not easy.

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
Walker
Walkers
Raising
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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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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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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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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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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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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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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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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