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.
BARBARA BUSHI don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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