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.
BARBARA BUSHI want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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 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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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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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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 little old-fashioned.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH