The best Quotes by Barbara Bush

The best Quotes by Barbara Bush

Barbara Pierce Bush (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

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.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

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.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The future of this nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

George H. W. Bush

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

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 thrive and grow to their capabilities.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I've done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life - and the lives of countless other Americans.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

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.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

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Great necessities call out great virtues.

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

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I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.

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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

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There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

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If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

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Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

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The stars at night, are big and bright,
deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

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Of course, nobody I knew in East-Texas in 1989 cared about Newtonian Physics. The only Newtons they cared about were Wayne and Fig.

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I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.

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I'm the king of the world!

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

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