The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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