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 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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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?
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