Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bushis the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida, and the great aunt of Larry Bush. She served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth8 June 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.