George H. W. Bush Quotes

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

It takes a village to raise a child.

The trouble is that we live in a culture where individuation and instant gratification are kings--and civic work requires selflessness and patience.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.