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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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 winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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