Quotes from Barbara Bush

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

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.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

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.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.