I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSHGeorge is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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Never 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.
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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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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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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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