Barbara Bush Quotes:- Barbara Bush (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of President George H. W. Bush. She was previously the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and she was the founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Among her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida.
Inspirational Barbara Bush Quotes
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
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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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“I hate the fact that people think ‘compromise’ is a dirty word.”
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“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
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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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“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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“Nobody likes a child to die or lose an election.”
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“People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.”
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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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“Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.”
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“Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.”
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“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
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“My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?”
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40+ Powerful Barbara Bush Quotes
“Raising George Walker was not easy.”
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“Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.”
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“My health is very good.”
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“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
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“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”
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“Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.”
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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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“You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.”
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“Let’s judge a man on what he’s done.”
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“Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.”
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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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“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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.”
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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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Famous Quotes by Barbara Bush
“I’m a little old-fashioned.”
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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 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 tired now of the elections.”
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“I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.”
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“I’m not a one-issue person.”
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“The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.”
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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, coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”
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“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”
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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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“You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.”
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“You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.”
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“My worst expectations never happened.”
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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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Top Powerful Quotes by Barbara Bush
“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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.”
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.”
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“I have a pig valve.”
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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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“It seems to me I spent my life in carpools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.”
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“Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.”
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“You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.”
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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 a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.”
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“I don’t like attacking.”
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“I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.”
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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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“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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