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 BOMBECKI just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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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 worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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