Barbara Bush Quotes
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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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 that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
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Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
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What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.