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.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
-
-
I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH -
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH -
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH -
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH -
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH -
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH -
Describing 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.
BARBARA BUSH -
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH -
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH






