George Herbert Walker Bush Famous Quotes
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity."
"My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come."
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional."
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.
The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.
"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes."
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
George Herbert Walker Bush Quotations
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
"April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers."
T S Eliot
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
Noam Chomsky
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
Anthony Burgess
"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
Henrik Ibsen
"Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance."
Biblical Proverb
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Pope John Paul II
"So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain."
Plato
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life."
Norman Cousins
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens