Barbara Bush Quotes

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

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my friends and family.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

We are always inclined to love and care for that which we know.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

The only important things are family and love.

I think the most important thing in the whole world is love and relationships, and if you don't have them it's quite bad.

I love seeing the stars, and I love being around my friends and family.

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.