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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.

Barbara Bush

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
BARBARA BUSH

House Littles Texas
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Arms Kids Strong
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Needs Women
I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSH

Fashioned Littles Old
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?
BARBARA BUSH

Beautiful Mean War
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Family Mother
I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH

Airplane Anything Jump Know
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSH

Love Thank Witty You
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
BARBARA BUSH

Book House White
I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
BARBARA BUSH

Mean People Rights
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Loss Thinking

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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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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