I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSHNever 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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.
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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 tired now of the elections.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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