Children make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKGiving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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