I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSHI’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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.
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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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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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