Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I don’t like attacking.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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