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 BUSHThe home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only 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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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