Barba Bush

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

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.

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

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

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

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

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

Be nice to your siblings, they’re your best link to your past and the most likely to stay with you in the future.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that’s meant a life of one-nighters.

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

I was bribing North to wear her butter 350’s by saying they glow in the dark. However, she made me turn off the lights to test it. She caught me lying but Kanye was on speaker phone and said don’t worry I will make them.

I pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

[On his mother’s adversity] She had a very difficult beginning… All of my mothers family were killed… and she came to America at the time of the depression. It was not an easy life at all.

Maybe that’s all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.