Erma Bombeck Quotes

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Erma Bombeck

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• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Best
  • Tough

• It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Tough

• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Tough

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• Center is a very tough position to play.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Very
  • Tough

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tough

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Hands
  • Tough
  • Campaigning

• I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Game
  • Tough

• I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

  

  Larry David
  • Childhood
  • Tough
  • Miserable

• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  

  Nate Silver
  • High
  • Tough
  • Walk

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Training
  • Tough

• The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Wife
  • Tough
  • Clothing

• Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Justice
  • Talk
  • Tough

• I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Wanted
  • Achieve
  • Able

• [Their marriage] will not be all cakes and ale.... They are too much alike to be the ideal match. Patty is thick-skinned and passionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart by the mere little pinpricks and mosquito bites of life; and Paul is proud and crotchety, and, like the great Napoleon, given to kick the fire with his boots when he is put out. There will be many little gusts of temper, little clouds of misunderstanding, disappointments, and bereavements, and sickness of mind and body; but with all this, they will find their lot so blessed, by reason of the mutual love and sympathy tat, through all the vicissitudes, will surely grow deeper and stronger every day they live together, that they will not know how to conceive a better one.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Ideal
  • Mutual
  • Alike

• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Character
  • Devil
  • Mood

• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Tough
  • Cookies