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 BOMBECKA grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Have 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.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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