Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHDescribing 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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