Barbara Bush
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.Collection: Veterans
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.Collection: Parenting
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.Collection: Family
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Time
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.Collection: Family
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.Collection: Family
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.Collection: Family
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.Collection: Family
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.Collection: Friendship
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.Collection: Politics
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.Collection: Mom
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.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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 hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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!
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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!
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.
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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.
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
I have a pig valve.
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Raising George Walker was not easy.
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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.
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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.
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
I don't like attacking.
My health is very good.
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.