Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH







