I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
BARBARA BUSHAs if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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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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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.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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