Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSHIf you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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 a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Why 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.
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