And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHWhatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH






