Barbara Bush Quotes

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• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

  153 Copy quote

• 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.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, White, House

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Success, Congratulations, Teaching

  "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.

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• The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

  Barbara Bush

  Teacher, Children, Reading

  78 Copy quote

• 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.

  Barbara Bush

  Good Luck, People, Judgement

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Basketball, Weakness, Dull

  65 Copy quote

• The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

  Barbara Bush

  Volunteer, Ark, Built

  69 Copy quote

• 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!

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Women, White

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Children, Dirty

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Integrity, Teaching

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• If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Writing, People

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Rights, People

  74 Copy quote

• Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

  Barbara Bush

  Family, White, House

  88 Copy quote

• Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Money, Blood

  26 Copy quote

• . . . 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.

  Barbara Bush

  Learning, America, Important

  29 Copy quote

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Thinking, Important

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Wife, Advice, Care

  9 Copy quote

• Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

  Barbara Bush

  Fun, Talking, Careers

  Barbara Bush (2015). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

  Barbara Bush

  Listening, Done, Ifs

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

  83 Copy quote

• Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Library, Done

  42 Copy quote

• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

  68 Copy quote

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  Barbara Bush

  Love, Marriage, Children

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Women, People, Parent

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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