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.’
BARBARA BUSHI’m tired now of the elections.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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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.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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