I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSHFuture of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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