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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We all make our contributions to the world and I suppose mine will not be to the literary treasures of the western civilization, ... But I do hope to contribute in my own way, and one of those ways is to bring closer the day when every child and every American learns to read.
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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.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Thank heavens the debates are over, ... Someone said we should have more. I said, 'Good heavens, haven't we had enough of those?'
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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.
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As if we don't have enough violence on television.
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You all look at it as a little house. It was a terrific house to live in. We loved it here.