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 BUSHIf more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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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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 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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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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