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.
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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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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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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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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