Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
ERMA BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Children make your life important.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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