Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHWhere will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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