Barbara bush quotes

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.
- Barbara Bush

You just don't luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush

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.
- Barbara Bush

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
- Barbara Bush

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.
- Barbara Bush

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
- Barbara Bush

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
- Barbara Bush

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.
- Barbara Bush

And who knows? 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!
- Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
- Barbara Bush

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.
- Barbara Bush

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
- Barbara Bush

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
- Barbara Bush

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
- Barbara Bush

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house.
- Barbara Bush

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
- Barbara Bush

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
- Barbara Bush

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
- Barbara Bush

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
- Barbara Bush

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
- Barbara Bush

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

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
- Barbara Bush

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

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

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

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.
- Barbara Bush