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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.

Barbara Bush

The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
BARBARA BUSH

Golf Husband Two
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Dirty Family
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Boredom Jobs May
I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH

Courageous Office Running
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Friendship Inspirational
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

Die Sister Six Tell Years
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Husband Marvelous
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.’
BARBARA BUSH

Discipline Shapes Writing
. . . 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 BUSH

America Important Learning
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful

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