You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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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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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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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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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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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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