Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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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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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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.
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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.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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