Erma Bombeck Quotes

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Erma Bombeck

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• I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mother
  • Think
  • You

• I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Summer

• A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Friends

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Mother
  • Free

• I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Nice

• Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Small

• 'Oh, hello,' Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. 'Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?' 'It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg,' Balder answers. 'Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.'

  

  Libba Bray
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Player

• My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Children
  • American
  • Mother

• When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Death

• My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

  

  Joan Collins
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Good
  • Work
  • Action

• Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • Fame
  • Teresa