Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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'm not a one-issue person.
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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.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I have a pig valve.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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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.
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You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
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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.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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My health is very good.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Somewhere out 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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.