Best Quotes by Barbara Bush (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
  6. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
  7. 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.
  8. 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!
  9. 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.
  10. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

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