You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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 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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I don’t like attacking.
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