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 BUSHI think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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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’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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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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