Barbara Bush Quotes
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I don't like attacking.
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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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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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 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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I have a pig valve.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.