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 BUSHI’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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