You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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