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Barbara Bush
American
First Lady
Born:
Jun 8
,
1925
Died:
Apr 17
,
2018
About
Me
People
Think
Will
You
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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
You
Regret
Will
Husband
Spent
Parent
Having
More
Winning
Never
Never Regret
Deal
Verdict
Passed
Test
Friend
End
Child
Closing
Your
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
You
People
Treat
Will
Important
Lose
Strangers
Other
Meet
Way
Sight
Fact
Never
Along
Most
How
Yardstick
Friends
Coworkers
The Most Important
Your
Even
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!
Barbara Bush
Day
Will
Somewhere
Wish
White
White House
President
One Day
Out
Follow
Someone
Over
Footsteps
House
Well
Him
Audience
Spouse
May
Who
Even
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
Problems
Thrive
Unlimited
Possessing
Weaknesses
Perceived
Rather
Instead
Dull
Than
Human
Human Beings
Capabilities
Then
Beings
Grow
Strengths
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
Day
Will
Somewhere
Wish
White
White House
President
One Day
Out
Follow
Someone
Over
Footsteps
House
Well
Him
Knows
Audience
Spouse
May
Who
Even
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.
Barbara Bush
You
Opportunities
Build
Luck
Think
Step
Like
Friendships
Just
Whether
Much
Things
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Man
Marriage
First
Tell
Married
About
Kissed
Throw
Up
Just
Children
Ever
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
Needs
Mind
Giving
Own
Worlds
Others
Our
Opening
Occupied
Territory
Familiar
Familiar Territory
Unexplained
Us
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Barbara Bush
You
Detour
Take
Roadblock
Come
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush
Time
Yourself
Big
Believe
Something
Ideas
Involved
Big Ideas
Than
Get
Your
Larger
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
Better
Country
Healthy
Think
Else
Morals
Than
Anyone
Thinks
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.
Barbara Bush
Family
You
Strong
Sit
Kid
Only
Arm
Know
Read
Around
Little
Them
Little Kid
Your
Teaches
Keeps
I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
Barbara Bush
Hate
People
Word
Think
Compromise
Fact
Dirty
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Barbara Bush
Time
People
Hair
Worry
Frankly
Boring
About
Who
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Barbara Bush
Life
Faith
Family
You
Important
Building
Important Things
Most
Friends
Friendships
Family And Friends
The Most Important
Should
Your
Things
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
Barbara Bush
You
Nothing
Other
Get
Done
Listen
Each
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara Bush
Politics
Needs
You
Guidance
Think
President
All-Powerful
He
Lord
Lot
May
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
You
Women
People
Parents
Backgrounds
Bias
Hear
Going
Taught
Different
Different Backgrounds
Your
Why
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
Barbara Bush
Love
You
Way
Only
Children
To Love
Your
Hard
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
Barbara Bush
You
Tell
Never
Feel
Over
How
Anyone
Ask
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.
Barbara Bush
You
Opportunities
Build
Luck
Think
Would
Step
Like
Friendships
Just
Whether
Much
Things
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
Barbara Bush
Parenting
Parents
Worried
About
Who
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.
Barbara Bush
Good
Great
You
First
Important
Early Years
Great Believer
Most
Read
Sort
Years
Get
Grade
Grades
The Most Important
Anything
Then
Base
Believer
Preschool
Second
Early
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.
Barbara Bush
Veterans Day
Home
People
World
Veterans
Think
Unlike
Kind
Kinder
Wounded
Feel
Look
Welcomed
Well
Make
Returned
Gentle
Doing
Very
Loved
Then
Vietnam
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Warriors
Now
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush
Hate
Abortion
Else
Someone
Could
Make
Just
Choice
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Barbara Bush
People
Better
Everything
Worry
Would
Would-Be
About
Comprehend
More
More People
Could
Write
Read
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