. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSH
I’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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