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.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Children make your life important.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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