It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSHI really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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