I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSHI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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. . . 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 togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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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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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