It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECKGood 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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