If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSHI mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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 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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH