Erma Bombeck Quotes

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

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• Mother
• Understanding
• Compassion
• Judgment

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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Doing
  • Most
  • Admire

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Speak

• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Power
  • Remember
  • System

• My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Forever

• The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we’re in our thirties.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Generation
  • Youth
  • Boring

• All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Middle
  • Appreciated

• My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

  

  LeBron James
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mother

• Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.

  

  Dave Attell

• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Understanding