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 BUSHLife has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
-
-
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH -
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH -
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH -
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 BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH -
I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH -
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
BARBARA BUSH -
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH -
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH -
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSH -
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH






