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 BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I don’t like attacking.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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