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.
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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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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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’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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 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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH







