Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
ERMA BOMBECK
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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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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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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