Barbara Bush Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Loss, Thinking

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• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

  Barbara Bush

  Beautiful, War, Mean

  Interview on "Good Morning America", March 18, 2003.

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Thinking, Healthy

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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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• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  Barbara Bush

  Jobs, Boredom, May

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• Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

  Barbara Bush

  Time, Believe, Ideas

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

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• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  Barbara Bush

  Love, Thank You, Witty

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• I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

  Barbara Bush

  Hate, Dirty, Naughty

  "Early Start" with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin, edition.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

  Barbara Bush

  Parenting, Parent, Worried

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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

  Strong, Kids, Arms

  "Exclusive Interview: Barbara Bush Sits Down With Greta Van Susteren". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Mother, Children

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

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• People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

  Barbara Bush

  Hair, People, Worry

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Husband, Golf, Two

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• Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

  Barbara Bush

  Writing, People, Worry

  Barbara Bush (2015). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• My worst expectations never happened.

  Barbara Bush

  Expectations, Worst, Happened

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• Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

  Barbara Bush

  Friendship, Good Life, Values

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• I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Women, Needs

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• Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

  Barbara Bush

  Veterans Day, Work, Home

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Nice, Thinking, Justice

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Dream, Race, Society

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

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• I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

  Barbara Bush

  Home, Love Is, Talking

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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.

  Barbara Bush

  Years, Important, Firsts

  "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  Barbara Bush

  Boys, Trust Me, Handful

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• George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

  Barbara Bush

  Texas, House, Littles

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