The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSHWhatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
BARBARA BUSH