Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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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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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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