I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSHThree publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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