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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck

When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Beginning Children Room Yourself
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Children Clean Funny Home Mom
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Courage Humor Inspirational Laughter Need Reward Tragedy Yourself
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Family Judgement Mom Understand
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Housework can kill you if done right.
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Funny Kill Work Yourself
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness Yourself
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Children Family Funny Mom Myself Safety
Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Endurance Family Friendship Funny Garden Place
Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Act Children Forgiveness Love
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Exploration Food Funny Humor Myself
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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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
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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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Exercise Insect Inspiration Woman
When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Appearance Home Humor Time Travel Yourself

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