Children make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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