If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH. . . 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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.
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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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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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I don’t like attacking.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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