I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I don’t like attacking.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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