Barbara Bush Quotes

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
• 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…
• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends,…
• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
• You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
• It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
• If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they…
• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
• I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
• Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
• Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
• 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.
• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
• 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…
• 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…

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