Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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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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My health is very good.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I have a pig valve.
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You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
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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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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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 a little old-fashioned.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.