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.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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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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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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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