Quotes By Barbara Bush

I'm a little old-fashioned.

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.

I don't like attacking.

I have a pig valve.

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

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

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

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

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

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

I'm tired now of the elections.

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.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

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

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

And who knows? Somewhere out there 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!

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

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

I'm not a one-issue person.

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.

I've done it all.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

My health is very good.