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

• 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 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

• My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mother

• I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Friends
  • Band
  • Management

• Thea: Didja make your quota, Lois?Lois: Yup. Kissed a woman from every state in the union. Rhode Island was a drag queen, though. Do you think that counts?

  

  Alison Bechdel

• She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Dog
  • Kitchen

• My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Son
  • Emotional
  • Thought

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

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • Fame
  • Teresa