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.
BARBARA BUSHIt seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH






