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.’
BARBARA BUSHOne thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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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 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.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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