I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSHI think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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.
BARBARA BUSHI’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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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.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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’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.
BARBARA BUSHI’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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHBelieve in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHI really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSHI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSHRaising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSHThe home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSHRaising George Walker was not easy.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
BARBARA BUSHAnd who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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