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Barbara Bush [1925-0] American

Rank: 101
First Lady, Former First Lady of the United States

Barbara Bush is the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida. She served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Barbara Pierce was born in Flushing, New York. She attended Milton Public School from 1931 to 1937, and Rye Country Day School from 1937-1940. She graduated from Ashley Hall School in Charleston, South Carolina.

Family, Car, Faith, Friendship, Home, Life, Marriage, Mom, Parenting, Politics, Success, Time, Veterans Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.	Family	101
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.	Family, Life	102
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.	Family	103
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.		104
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.	Time	105
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.		106
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!		107
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.		108
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.	Parenting	109
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.	Home, Veterans Day	110
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.		111
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.	Marriage	112
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.	Family, Success	113
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.		114
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.	Faith, Family	115
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.	Mom	116
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.		117
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.		118
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.		119
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.		120
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.	Friendship	121
I have a pig valve.		122
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.		123
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.		124
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.		125
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.		126
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.		201
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.	Car	202
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.		203
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!		204
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.		205
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.		206
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.		207
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.		208
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.		209
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.		210
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.		211
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?		212
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.		213
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.		214
My health is very good.		215
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.		216
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.		217
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.		218
I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.		219
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.		220
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.		221
I'm taking a vow not to advise.		222
I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.		223
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.		224
Raising George Walker was not easy.		225
My worst expectations never happened.		226
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.		301
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.		302
I'm tired now of the elections.		303
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.		304
I don't like the blame game, though.		305
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.	Politics	306
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.		307
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.		308
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.		309
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.		310
I don't like attacking.		311
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.		312
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.		313
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.		314
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.		315
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.		316
Let's judge a man on what he's done.		317
I've done it all.		318
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.		319
I'm not a one-issue person.		320
I'm a little old-fashioned.		321

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