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 BUSHDescribing 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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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