Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSHI think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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