I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHI don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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!
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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.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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