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 BUSHYour 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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.
BARBARA BUSH






