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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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 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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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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