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 BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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