I 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.
BARBARA BUSHAnd so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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