Barbara Quotes
Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being