Quotes By 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
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Barbara Bush
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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
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
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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
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
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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
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
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
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
Barbara Bush