Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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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