Quote

What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

Laura Bush

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laura Bush
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
Autobiographer
Former First Lady Of The United States
Hiv Activist
Librarian
Politician
Teacher
Writer
Midland
Texas
Laura Welch Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush
Safe
Around
Home
Country
Children
World
Homes
Stable
Loving

More quotes by Laura Bush

Image
As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Bush
Image
As parents, the most important thing we can do is read to our children early and often. Reading is the path to success in school and life. When children learn to love books, they learn to love learning.
Laura Bush
Image
Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.
Laura Bush
Image
certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.
Laura Bush
Image
I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!
Laura Bush
Image
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
Laura Bush
Image
There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.
Laura Bush
Image
It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.
Laura Bush
Image
We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.
Laura Bush
Image
Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
Laura Bush
Image
I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.
Laura Bush
Image
No one likes to be criticized.
Laura Bush
Image
An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.
Laura Bush
Image
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.
Laura Bush
Image
Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.
Laura Bush
Image
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
Laura Bush
Image
Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
Image
Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.
Laura Bush
Image
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
Laura Bush
Image
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
Laura Bush