Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHDescribing 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH







