I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHThere are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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 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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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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