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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.
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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
