You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
BARBARA BUSH