You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH