Success is outliving your failures.
ERMA BOMBECKHave 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Children make your life important.
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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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