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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.

Erma Bombeck

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Funny Happiness Inspirational One Liner
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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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 takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.

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