I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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’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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSH