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.
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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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