Barbara Bush Quotes

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.
Barbara Bush

Life, Time, Husband

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

Success, Family, Important

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

Family, Human, Friends

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

Family, Around, Means

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

Family, Life, Important

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara Bush

Politics, May, Lord

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.
Barbara Bush

Human, Problems, Rather

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.
Barbara Bush

Life, Car, Seems

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

Marriage, Children, Tell

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
Barbara Bush

Parenting, Parents, Worried

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara Bush

Friendship, Value

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!
Barbara Bush

Someone, May, Him

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
Barbara Bush

Husband, Children, Marvelous

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

Mom, Time, Mother

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

Women, Parents, Different

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.
Barbara Bush

Mind, Giving, Others

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush

Country, Else, Anyone

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
Barbara Bush

Die, Child, Losing

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

Society, Dream, Winner

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
Barbara Bush

Love, Children, Hard

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

Time, Yourself, Big

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush

Hate, Someone, Else

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

Hate, Fact, Word

I'm a little old-fashioned.
Barbara Bush

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: June 8, 1925

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