I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSHI really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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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.
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