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 BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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