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.
BARBARA BUSHI think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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