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 BOMBECKIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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