When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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