Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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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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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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.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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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.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH






