Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
ERMA BOMBECKHave you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Children make your life important.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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