Barbara Bush quotes

Born
June 8, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S.

Died
April 17, 2018.

Occupation
First Lady.

Barbara Bush was the First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. W. Bush.

You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
– Barbara Bush

Let’s judge a man on what he’s done.
– Barbara Bush

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

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.
– 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

I’m not a one-issue person.
– Barbara Bush

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
– Barbara Bush

I’m a little old-fashioned.
– Barbara Bush

Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.
– Barbara Bush

I hate the fact that people think ‘compromise’ is a dirty word.
– Barbara Bush

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
– Barbara Bush

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
– Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
– Barbara Bush

I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
– Barbara Bush

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

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

My worst expectations never happened.
– Barbara Bush

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

I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
– Barbara Bush

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.
– Barbara Bush

I have a pig valve.
– Barbara Bush

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.
– Barbara Bush

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
– Barbara Bush

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

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
– Barbara Bush

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
– Barbara Bush

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
– Barbara Bush