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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

Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Car Pool Track
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
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
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
BARBARA BUSH

Blue Mind Waste
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Politics Thinking
Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSH

Good Judgement Luck People
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.
BARBARA BUSH

President Running Way
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSH

Bomb Gun Mean
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy 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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