Barbara Bush Quotes - Page 2

I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.

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.

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.

But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

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

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.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

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

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

My worst expectations never happened.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

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.

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.

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.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.