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.
BARBARA BUSHI’m taking a vow not to advise.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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 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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH






