I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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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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