Barbara Bush Quotes

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

Don’t worry. We have one at home just like him.

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

A security program where everything that is technical possible is done, undermines trust and in the long run produces less security.

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second.

I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

Parenthood has made me more cautious.

When you have a child, you have to have a hawk eye. You have to be with the child all the time.

When you put a camera in your kid's bedroom, you're literally inviting the entire connected world, the entire Internet into your child's safe space, if you will.

I love being a mom.

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

I took being a mom very seriously.

Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love.

Growing up, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I knew that her entire world revolved around us, and she relished being involved in every school project and every craft.