To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSHThe personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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 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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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