Quotes By Barbara Bush

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

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

I don't like the blame game, though.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

My health is very good.

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.

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!

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I'm a little old-fashioned.

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.

I don't like attacking.

I have a pig valve.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

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

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

I'm tired now of the elections.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

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.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

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!

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

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.