My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSHThree 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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