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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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. . . 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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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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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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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I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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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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