Barbara Bush Quotes
-
I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
-
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
-
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
-
What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
-
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
-
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
-
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
-
I don't like attacking.
-
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
-
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
-
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
-
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
-
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
-
My worst expectations never happened.
-
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
-
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
-
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.