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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.
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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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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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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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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. . . 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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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