Best 71 quotes of Barbara Bush on MyQuotes

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

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.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Describing 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.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

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.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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

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.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

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 a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

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

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

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

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

I'm tired now of the elections.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

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

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

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.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

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.

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

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

My worst expectations never happened.

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.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

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.