Children make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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’.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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 grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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