Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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 really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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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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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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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.
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I don't like attacking.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I'm tired now of the elections.
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And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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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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I've done it all.