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.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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