Barbara Bush Famous Quotes
"One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring."
"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."
Believe in something larger than yourself.
"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."
"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"
War is not nice.
Barbara Bush Quotations
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.
Pressbox Maxim
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
"After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure."
Edward R Murrow
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too."
William Blake
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.
Fran Lebowitz
"You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by."
Eric Pio
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
Edward Morgan Forster