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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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