Quote

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

Barbara Bush

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce
Offers
Advice
Wife
Show
Doesn
Shows
Care
Much
Offer

More quotes by Barbara Bush

Image
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
Image
My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush
Image
There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
Barbara Bush
Image
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
Barbara Bush
Image
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
Image
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
Barbara Bush
Image
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
Image
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
Barbara Bush
Image
Raising George Walker was not easy.
Barbara Bush
Image
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
Image
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.
Barbara Bush
Image
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
Barbara Bush
Image
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
Image
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
Image
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
Barbara Bush