Erma Bombeck Mom Quotes

#1. Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.

Erma Bombeck

#2. Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

Erma Bombeck

#3. Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#4. I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

Mark Boyle

#5. My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

Doug Jones

#6. Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Erma Bombeck

#7. It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

#8. Let's go now." He extended his hand to help me get up. I grabbed it and, turning on my side facing the wall away from him to prevent him from seeing me, I asked, "Must we?" This was the closest I would ever come to saying, Stay. Just stay with me.

Andre Aciman

#9. In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

Jesse Eisenberg

#10. Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

#11. Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

Dylan Moran

#12. So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

Bikram Choudhury

#13. When the old faith is gone, and the enthusiasm for the gospel is extinct, it is no wonder that people seek something else in the way of delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

Gautama Buddha

#15. And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#16. Decision it was only necessary for him to concentrate his attention for a few moments and the spirit moved him, and the best possible decision presented itself as though an inner voice had told him what to do.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Richard Griffiths

#18. Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.

Anne Katherine

#19. Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

Seamus Heaney

#20. God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose

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