You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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