Erma Bombeck Thought Quotes

#1. I wish there were a way for me to ask about a red ladle but it's not a normal question

Caroline Kepnes

#2. I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Wilma Rudolph

#3. How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?

Kate Tempest

#4. Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

Isaac Asimov

#5. Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

Jon Gordon

#6. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Erma Bombeck

#7. Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.

N.K. Jemisin

#8. I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Barbara Lynn

#9. It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

William Dean Howells

#10. Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Ron Perlman

#11. Oh, how proper we seem to ourselves when we have no reason to be improper! It takes being in love to know something about yourself. Sometimes, with you, I feel like the slut of the world, the eager, faithful slut of the world. Does that seem proper to you?

John Edward Williams

#12. When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

Erma Bombeck