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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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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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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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