Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSHOne thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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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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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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