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Barbara Bush

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

Boys Handful Trust Me
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Love Talking
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Done Library Thinking
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Dirty Family
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Book House White
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational White Women
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Firsts Important Years
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

Love Thank Witty You
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 BUSH

Family House White
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
BARBARA BUSH

Interesting Political Trying

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