Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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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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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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