A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. Laura Bush More Quotes by Laura Bush More Quotes From Laura Bush I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to them so naturally. It wasn't forced. This is their character, and it's a big advantage I have, being raised by people like this, having a secure and stable life, and a lot of love and encouragement. Laura Bush encouragement character people My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef. Laura Bush stress husband jobs 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 smoking young thinking Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way. Laura Bush men war country Books are important. They help you sleep at night. Laura Bush sleep night book Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character. Laura Bush growing towns character If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help. Laura Bush giving country people We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. Laura Bush community nature children 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 heart men thinking I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me. Laura Bush inspired different people When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from. But parents can try to educate their children about choices. A lot of everything we're talking about that has to do with heart disease has to do with the choices that we make. Laura Bush heart children school Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all. Laura Bush smoking I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them. Laura Bush working-with-children librarian children Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband. Laura Bush husband girl father Nothing attracts attention like a red dress. Laura Bush red dresses attention In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst. Laura Bush girl home country For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights. Laura Bush rights men country It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi.... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that. Laura Bush lunch strong thinking I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters. Laura Bush sleep running children Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children. Laura Bush childhood giving children
