Barbara Bush's Quotes

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Barbara Bush

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.

Barbara Bush

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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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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My health is very good.

Barbara Bush

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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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

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

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