I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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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.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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