Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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’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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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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






