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.
BARBARA BUSHIt seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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