A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
ERMA BOMBECKAll of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children make your life important.
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