Top 54 Quotes & Sayings by Jenna Bush

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Jenna Bush.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jenna Bush

Jenna Welch Bush Hager is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program Today. Hager and her twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. After her father's presidency, Hager became an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, and a television personality on NBC, being featured most prominently as a member of The Today Show as a correspondent, contributor and co-host.

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level. — © Jenna Bush
Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.
I was an English major.
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.
I like to go to bed early.
Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.
I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.
I care what people who know me think of me.
My mom's a secret Rastafarian.
My parents taught us it's important to give back. — © Jenna Bush
My parents taught us it's important to give back.
I think there are many ways to serve your country.
I think I know a lot about campaigns.
I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
I'm pretty normal.
One day I would love to have a couple children.
My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
I hope to work with kids any way possible.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.
I can't wish I weren't something that I am.
When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.
I'm not the perfect bride after all.
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. — © Jenna Bush
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.
My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.
The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?
As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
There's no job that's more rewarding than being with kids. I adore it.
We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well. — © Jenna Bush
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.
I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.
Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time.
As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.
From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!
Most people actually think I'm more like my mom because we're interested in the same things.
I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all over the world, people don't have the same rights that we do in the United States.
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