I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSHIt was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Three 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.
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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I don’t like attacking.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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