It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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 the country has had enough Bushes.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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 loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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!
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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.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH






