When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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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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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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 worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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