One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
ERMA BOMBECKIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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