Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
BARBARA BUSHYou know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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 little old-fashioned.
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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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 personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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