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.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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