You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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