People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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’m tired now of the elections.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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.’
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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. . . 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.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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.
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