Erma Bombeck Quotes
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Quotes to Explore
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
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My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
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Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.
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I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.
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My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.
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I like being a mother.
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I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It's still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, 'Be slow to anger.'
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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and have rescued many dogs. We've lived in the woods and sometimes have had as many as 70 sled dogs. Or had six or seven dogs living in the house. Dogs have saved my life on more than one occasion - and I mean that literally.
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
