. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSHI don’t like attacking.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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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 taking a vow not to advise.
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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.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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