You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
BARBARA BUSHWhy be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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