I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSHYour 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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 this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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