Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Children make your life important.
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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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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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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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