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 BUSHFuture of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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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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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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