Erma Bombeck Quotes

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

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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Gut

• No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Amy Tan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • People
  • Mother
  • Drug

• 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.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Mother
  • House
  • Friend

• I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Mother

• I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Creativity

• So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Difficult
  • Able
  • Rhythm

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

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • League
  • Infinite