Barbara Bush quotes - page 3

Raising George Walker was not easy. (Barbara Bush)
I'm tired now of the elections. View quote
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die. View quote
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War is not nice. View quote
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Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you. View quote
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Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house. View quote
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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. View quote
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer? View quote
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For heaven's sake enjoy life. Don't cry over things that were or things that aren't. Enjoy what you have now to the fullest. In all honesty you really only have two choices; you can like what you do OR you can dislike it. I choose to like it and what fun I have had. The other choice is no fun and people do not want to be around a whiner. We can always find people who are worse off and we don't have to look far! Help them and forget self! I would certainly say, above all, seek God. He will come to you if you look. There is absolutely NO down side. (Barbara Bush)
I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich. View quote
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I don't like attacking. View quote
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. View quote
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I'm a little old-fashioned. View quote
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word. View quote
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm taking a vow not to advise. View quote
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. View quote
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