Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
BARBARA BUSHFuture of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH