It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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