Barbara Bush

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 on not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.

— 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

Believe in something larger than yourself.

— 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

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

— Barbara Bush

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.

— Barbara Bush

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

— Barbara Bush

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

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

— Barbara Bush