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Barbara Bush Quotes

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

– Barbara Bush

I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.

– Barbara Bush

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.

– Barbara Bush

My health is very good.

– Barbara Bush

Let’s judge a man on what he’s done.

– Barbara Bush

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

– Barbara Bush

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

– Barbara Bush

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.

– Barbara Bush

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

– Barbara Bush

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

– Barbara Bush

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.

– Barbara Bush

Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

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!

– Barbara Bush

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

– Barbara Bush

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

– Barbara Bush

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

– Barbara Bush

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

– Barbara Bush

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

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.

– Barbara Bush

I don’t like attacking.

– Barbara Bush

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

– Barbara Bush

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

– Barbara Bush

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