The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
BARBARA BUSHThe First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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