Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
ERMA BOMBECKIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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.
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He who laughs lasts.
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