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My worst expectations never happened.

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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Worst
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Never

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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. . . 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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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