I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH