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 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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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