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.
BARBARA BUSHI’m taking a vow not to advise.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I don’t like attacking.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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 a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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