Quotes by Barbara Bush

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

“I think were seeing in working mothers a change from Thank God its Friday to Thank God its Monday. If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.”

“You just dont luck into things as much as youd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether its friendships or opportunities.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their lifes blood. But everyone has something to give.”

“Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.”

“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”

“Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.”

“War is not nice...”

As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.

War is not nice.

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

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

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

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.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Its a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the Presidents spouse. And I wish him well.